@inproceedings{269db526dc154669a79af9c9271242b9,
title = "Technological developments of the OGRE focal plane array",
abstract = "The Off-plane Grating Rocket Experiment (OGRE) is a high resolution soft X-ray spectrometer sub-orbital rocket payload designed as a technology development platform for three low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) components. The incident photons will be focused using a light-weight, high resolution, single-crystal silicon optic. They are then dispersed conically according to wavelength by an array of off-plane gratings before being detected in a focal plane camera comprised of four Electron Multiplying Charge-Coupled Devices (EM-CCDs). While CCDs have been extensively used in space applications; EM-CCDs are seldom used in this environment and even more rarely for X-ray photon counting applications, making them a potential technology risk for larger scale X-ray observatories. This paper will discuss the reasons behind choosing EM-CCDs for the focal plane detector and the developments that have been recently made in the prototype camera electronics and thermal control system.",
author = "Tutt, \{James H.\} and McEntaffer, \{Randall L.\} and Casey DeRoo and Ted Schultz and Thomas Rogers and Neil Murray and Andrew Holland and Daniel Weatherill and Karen Holland and David Colebrook and David Farn",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 SPIE.; UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIX ; Conference date: 09-08-2015 Through 10-08-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1117/12.2186630",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Siegmund, \{Oswald H. W.\} and Siegmund, \{Oswald H. W.\}",
booktitle = "UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIX",
address = "United States",
}