Some of the devices under development are pixel sensor star tracker, Charge Coupled Device ( CCD ) based star tracker, Fiber Optics Gyro, Optical inter satellite link, high resolution camera optics, optical coatings and MEMS devices ( magnetometer, accelerometer ).
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Until the last five ( or so ) years all of these devices were of a type called CCD s ( Charge Coupled Device ), however CMOS imagers are now beginning to replace CCD s in these products due to numerous cost and technological advantages.
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Their main products were based on either cathode ray tube ( CRT ) or charge coupled device ( CCD ) technology and include, like the diTTo, diTTo Evolution & dataMill film scanners, Millennium II, Millennium HD & C-Reality & DSX telecines, imageMill 1 & 2 image processing system.
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The light is either directly focused onto the entrance slit of a monochromator and imaged onto a charged coupled device ( CCD ) array via a dispersive optical element ( e . g . a reflection grating ) or imaged onto the entrance aperture of a conventional interferometer.
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Foveon's new sensor technology, which the company calls X3, is a departure from the two types of image sensors that have proliferated in a wide variety of consumer products : CMOS, which is pronounced SEE-moss and stands for complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, and a more complex variety called CCD, for charged coupled device.
