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Subject has definition is a kind of
detector optical device
hybrid arrayA device in which the roles of radiation (infrared mostly) detector and signal multiplexer are separated. The device is a sandwich of two slabs. Other names include focal plane array (FPA) and sensor chip assembly (SCA).detector

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