Presentation of the design and first results of large format APD infra-red detector at Leonardo and camera at FLI for the PLANETES project

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The PLANETES project, funded by the ERC, aims to design and build a new spectrometer for the VLTI (ESO), integrated a near-infrared camera (J band) equipped with a large-format 2k × 2k detector operating in photon-counting mode with APD pixels. The detector is developed by Leonardo and will be integrated inside a camera designed by First Light Imaging. The very demanding scientific requirements will be presented, the camera must work in photon counting mode, dealing with very bright objects (stars) and faint objects (planets). We will present initial detector characterization results, the selection criteria for choosing devices from the Leonardo production batch, and the overall camera and spectrometer design.

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