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Since the CCD operates optimally at -100C, it’s cooled down using a CryoTel Cooler with active vibration cancellation. The final piece of this system is an STA Archon controller which can receive configuration information from and send status and image data to a host PC via Ethernet connection.
Requirements set out by RIXS science staff:
Parameter | Requirement |
Format | 4096 x 256, 1-d binnable |
Frame rate | 1Hz full-frame, 200Hz binned |
Effective pixel size, dispersion | 7um |
Read noise | 5 e- rms |
Positional stability | 100nm rms |