Hardening Approach to Use CMOS Image Sensors for Fusion by Inertial Confinement Diagnostics

Philippe Paillet (1) , Vincent Goiffon (2) , Sylvain Girard (3) , A. Chabane (2) , A. Rousseau (1) , S. Darbon (1) , O. Duhamel (1) , Melanie Raine (1) , Paola Cervantes (2) , M. Gaillardin (1) , Jean-Luc Bourgade (1) , Pierre Magnan (2) , V. Glebov (4) , G. Pien (4)

1 DAM/DIF - DAM Île-de-France
2 ISAE-SUPAERO - Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace
3 LHC - Laboratoire Hubert Curien
4 Laboratory for lasers energetics - LLE (New-York, USA)

A hardening method is proposed to enable the use of CMOS image sensors for Fusion by Inertial Confinement Diagnostics. The mitigation technique improves their radiation tolerance using a reset mode implemented in the device. The results obtained evidence a reduction of more than 70% in the number of transient white pixels induced in the pixel array by the mixed neutron and $gamma$ -ray pulsed radiation environment.

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Optics / Photonic

Philippe Paillet, Vincent Goiffon, Sylvain Girard, A. Chabane, A. Rousseau, et al.. Hardening Approach to Use CMOS Image Sensors for Fusion by Inertial Confinement Diagnostics. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2013, 60 (6), pp.4349 - 4355. ⟨10.1109/TNS.2013.2286673⟩. ⟨ujm-00925557⟩