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  2. Staring array - Wikipedia

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    A staring array, also known as staring-plane array or focal-plane array (FPA), is an image sensor consisting of an array (typically rectangular) of light-sensing pixels at the focal plane of a lens. FPAs are used most commonly for imaging purposes (e.g. taking pictures or video imagery), but can also be used for non-imaging purposes such as ...

  3. Focal-plane array (radio astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    Focal-plane arrays (FPAs) are widely used in radio astronomy. FPAs are arrays of receivers placed at the focus of the optical system in a radio-telescope. The optical system may be a reflector or a lens. Traditional radio-telescopes have only one receiver at the focus of the telescope, but radio-telescopes are now starting to be equipped with ...

  4. List of abbreviations in photography - Wikipedia

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    Focal plane. A shutter that opens and closes near to the film or image sensor, usually as a fast-moving slit, as contrasted with a bladed/leaf shutter located near a nodal point of a lens. [12] FPA: Focal plane array. A matrix of sensors positioned in the focal plane of a lens or other focusing device. [12] FPS: Frames per second. Used in ...

  5. Cardinal point (optics) - Wikipedia

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    A system is focal if an object ray parallel to the axis is conjugate to an image ray that intersects the optical axis. The intersection of the image ray with the optical axis is the focal point F ′ in image space. Focal systems also have an axial object point F such that any ray through F is conjugate to an image ray parallel to the optical axis.

  6. Pinhole camera model - Wikipedia

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    The image plane is parallel to axes X1 and X2 and is located at distance from the origin O in the negative direction of the X3 axis, where f is the focal length of the pinhole camera. A practical implementation of a pinhole camera implies that the image plane is located such that it intersects the X3 axis at coordinate -f where f > 0.

  7. Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor - Wikipedia

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    It consists of an array of lenses (called lenslets) of the same focal length. Each is focused onto a photon sensor (typically a CCD array or CMOS array [ 3 ] or quad-cell [ 4 ] ). If the sensor is placed at the geometric focal plane of the lenslet, [ 5 ] and is uniformly illuminated, [ 6 ] then, the integrated gradient of the wavefront across ...

  8. Active-pixel sensor - Wikipedia

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    Another type of image sensor technology that is related to the APS is the hybrid infrared focal plane array (IRFPA), [1] designed to operate at cryogenic temperatures in the infrared spectrum. The devices are two chips that are put together like a sandwich: one chip contains detector elements made in InGaAs or HgCdTe , and the other chip is ...

  9. Fourier ptychography - Wikipedia

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    The optical configuration for Fourier ptychography. Fourier ptychography is a computational imaging technique based on optical microscopy that consists in the synthesis of a wider numerical aperture from a set of full-field images acquired at various coherent illumination angles, [1] resulting in increased resolution compared to a conventional microscope.