22 August 2019 Automatic selection of correlated double sampling timing parameters
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Abstract

Correlated double sampling (CDS) is a process used in many charge-coupled device readout systems to cancel the reset noise component that would otherwise dominate. CDS processing typically consists of subtracting the integrated video signal during a “signal” period from that during a “reset” period. The response of this processing depends, therefore, on the shape of the video signal with respect to the integration bounds. In particular, the amount of noise appearing in the final image and the linearity of the pixel value with signal charge are affected by the choice of the CDS timing intervals. We use a digital CDS readout system which highly oversamples the video signal (as compared with the pixel rate) to reconstruct pixel values for different CDS timings using identical raw video signal data. We use this technique to develop insights into optimal strategy for selecting CDS timings both in the digital case (where the raw video signal may be available) and in the general case (where it is not). In particular, we show that the linearity of the CDS operation allows subtraction of the raw video signals of pixels in bias images from those in illuminated images to directly show the effects of CDS processing on the final (subtracted) pixel values.

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Daniel P. Weatherill, Ian Shipsey, Kirk Arndt, Richard Plackett, Daniel Wood, Kaloyan Metodiev, Maria Mironova, Daniela Bortoletto, and Nicolas Demetriou "Automatic selection of correlated double sampling timing parameters," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 5(4), 041502 (22 August 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.5.4.041502
Received: 15 April 2019; Accepted: 24 July 2019; Published: 22 August 2019
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KEYWORDS
Cadmium sulfide

Signal to noise ratio

Video

Signal processing

Charge-coupled devices

Video processing

Interference (communication)

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