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150 CHAPTER 5<br />

insensitive to edges or, generally speaking, to any spatial inhomogeniety imaged on<br />

one pixel. Such an optical structure is sketched in Figure 5.28.<br />

scene<br />

standard objective<br />

scene imaged<br />

on one pixel<br />

optical microstructure<br />

focused pixel illumination, distributed<br />

in two optically identical areas<br />

Figure 5.28 Microlens structure.<br />

Pixel<br />

imaged<br />

scene<br />

microlens<br />

array<br />

OptoASIC<br />

Like the 4-tap lock-in pixel (Section 5.1.2), the two-photosite demodulation pixel<br />

also contains four storage sites. But rather than accessing only one photosite from<br />

four sides, which leads to unsymmetrical sampling point sensitivity due to process<br />

inaccuracies, <strong>with</strong> this new pixel, two optically identical photosites are accessed<br />

from only two opposite sides. This two-side access is far less sensitive to process<br />

variations than the access from 4 sides. Also the photo site can be easily divided<br />

into several gates to accelerate photoelectrons and to achieve an efficient charge<br />

transfer.

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