Lambda
October 20, 2025
Sparta
SPARTA is the laboratory size implementation of an AGIPD-based camera. The Adaptive Gain Integrating Pixel Detector (AGIPD) is an x-ray imager, originally designed for the European XFEL, the world’s most powerful free electron laser. AGIPD is a fast, low noise integrating detector, with an adaptive gain amplifier per pixel. It has an equivalent noise of less than 1 keV when detecting single photons and a dynamic range of more than 104 photons of 12 keV. In burst mode, the system is able to store 352 images while running at up to 6.5 MHz. With a weight of less than 10 kilograms compared to the half-ton implementation at the European XFEL it is a compact yet extremely powerful high-speed x-ray camera for your setup in the 3–15 keV range.
AGIPD-BASED HIGHSPEED X-RAY DETECTOR
KEY FEATURES
352 frame burst at 6.5 MHz framerate
Highest dynamic range
to 104 photons in a single image, effective: >2.5 × 1011 cts/mm2/s)
Adaptive gain switching
200 μm × 200 μm pixel size
Low noise integrating detector
>2600 mm2 active area
| Pixel size: | 200 µm × 200 µm |
| Sensor material: | 500 µm-thick Silicon, high-Z version in development |
| Sensor size: | 128 × 512 pixels,
25.6 mm × 105.2 mm sensitive area |
| Max frame rate: | up to 6.5 MHz in a burst of 352 images |
| Average frame rate: | ≥3.5 kHz, exact value tba |
| Dynamic range: | 0 –› 104 photons at 12 keV per frame |
| Equivalent count rate: | >1010 cts/pix/s (>2.5 × 1011 cts/mm2/s) |
| Noise: | ~1 keV (0.75 keV at reduced dynamic range) |
| External trigger: | tba, likely 3.3V TTL |
