focal-plane array

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focal-plane array [¦fō·kəl ‚plān ə′rā]

(electronics)

A photodetector that has up to a million photosensors on a single semiconductor silicon chip arranged in a rectangular grid matrix that is placed in the focal plane of an optical instrument.

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