I am assisting the aerospace contractor Thales Alenia Space in Tres Cantos , Madrid with the following projects.
EMCCD and CMOS sensor testbench and image analysis software suite
Design of optical testbenches and characterisation software.
Analogue design and photometric characterisation of a thermal IR microbolometer array
For this second project I designed the analogue video signal chain and bias generation circuits for a high-frame rate microbolometer array camera. I also designed a testbench that used a black body source to accurately reproduce the irradiances that the camera would experience on-orbit when observing the Earth. This allowed the noise floor of the sensor system to be expressed in units of source temperature (so called “Noise Equivalent delta-Temperature” or NEdT).
