The wide field survey telescope (WFST) is a new generation survey telescope that is being built in China. Its optical design is a primary-focus system, and its camera is a mosaic charge-coupled device (CCD) camera composed of nine 9 K × 9 K CCD290-99 chips for scientific imaging. A verification platform to test the CCD290-99 chips is designed. The test platform includes a light source system, CCD controller, vacuum Dewar, and refrigerator for cooling the CCD. The CCD controller is a prototype design of the WFST camera that has a high performance, including low readout noise, flexible readout rate configuration, low power dissipation, etc. The digital double correlated sample method is used for video sampling of the CCD’s 16 channels. The specifications of the CCD detector system using a CCD290, such as gain, noise linearity, and crosstalk, are tested using this platform. The test results show that the CCD test platform meets the requirement of the CCD test and the design of CCD controller meets the scientific imaging requirements for the WFST camera. |
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Charge-coupled devices
Telescopes
Optical instrument design
CCD image sensors
Sensors
Field programmable gate arrays
Cameras