  The Small Size Telescope with Single Mirror (SST-1M) is one of the proposed
types of Small Size Telescopes (SST) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).
About 70 SST telescopes will be part the CTA southern array which will also
include Medium Sized Telescopes (MST) in its threshold configuration. Optimized
for the detection of gamma rays in the energy range from 5 TeV to 300 TeV, the
SST-1M uses a Davies-Cotton optics with a 4 m dish diameter with a field of
view of 9 degrees. The Cherenkov light resulting from the interaction of the
gamma-rays in the atmosphere is focused onto a 88 cm side-to-side hexagonal
photo-detection plane. The latter is composed of 1296 hollow light guides
coupled to large area hexagonal silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). The SiPM
readout is fully digital readout as for the trigger system. The compact and
lightweight design of the SST-1M camera offers very high performance ideal for
gamma-ray observation requirement. In this contribution, the concept, design,
performance and status of the first telescope prototype are presented.
