Looking around, normal industrial (like Pregius) or CCTV (Starvis) sensors are only optimized up into the ~950nm range and drop to near-zero rapidly. The NIR-op

Looking around, normal industrial (like Pregius) or CCTV (Starvis) sensors are only optimized up into the ~950nm range and drop to near-zero rapidly. The NIR-optimized Starvis seem to be a lot better than normal general purpose sensors already (not sure if this difference comes mainly from different Bayer arrays, in the QE curves these have a very, very distinct hump in the 850-950nm where R/G/B channels seem to have a bandpass). There are some sCMOS cameras (like PCO's stuff [1]) which would seem to be about an order of magnitude more sensitive at 1050 nm than these. And then there's of course the famed "black silicon". [2] My money would be on InGaAs sensors [3] being the best in this range. I would also suspect these are subject to funny import/export restrictions, nevermind the price. [1] https://www.pco.de/scientific-cameras/pcopanda-42-bi/ https://www.pco.de/scientific-cameras/pcopanda-42-bi/ ~10% QE at 1050 nm [2] https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wrj9PudX2YM/WkSB-PL-9vI/AAAAAAAAQUY/8QH-MqHYLVIMZig4zfmUNbfFsOBS13h-ACLcBGAs/s640/82a02ffc7bc8272a7dde8e39aa5486.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wrj9PudX2YM/WkSB-PL-9vI/AAAAAAAAQ... [3] https://www.princetoninstruments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/B-CCD-vs-InGaAs-QE-1024x681.png https://www.princetoninstruments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020...