Silicon Carbide Technology for a Hull Mounted Sonar System

This proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of a larger format resistor emitter array, greater than 544x672 pixels. Mega-pixel IR/EO emitter arrays allow higher resolution imagery to be utilized in the testing and performance evaluation of advanced IRarray sensors. As both the pixel count and the framerate capability of these sensors increase, the data rate required by the large emitters strain the state-of-the-art. This large format array is to be compatible with, and test, a next generationhigh-speed scene projector drive electronics, being developed via a FY-1999-2 SBIR topic program, capable of processing real-time image data at rates exceeding 420 MB/sec, roughly 200 Hz for a 1024x1024 array. Use with the GFE electronics set dictatesthat the