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DSSC X-Ray Imager
Front view of the completely assembled DSSC 1-Mpixel camera during the system integration period in February 2019 Project Goal:Development and realization of a high-frame rate mega-pixel X-ray camera with single-photon resolution for applications at XFEL Partners:
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The European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility will provide uniquely intense and coherent short-pulse radiation in the X-ray regime. Up to 27000 pulses will be delivered with a minimal temporal spacing of 220 ns between each pulse and an overall repetition rate of 10 Hz. In order to utilize the fast 220-ns pulse separation and to investigate dynamics on that time scale at experiments, the development of a new area detector called DEPFET Sensor with Signal Compression (DSSC) has been started in 2009.
The DSSC X-ray imager is a mega-pixel camera combining a single-photon resolution capability at low photon numbers with a wide dynamic range of up to several thousand 1-keV photons and a frame-rate capability of up to 4.5 MHz. DESY-FEC is involved in the development of the focal-plane electronics, comprizing the design of the ASIC for the readout of the DEPFET arrays as well as of the hybrid modules of the camera head.
