A comparison of the limits to the performance of thermal and photon detector imaging arrays
| Autor: | Paul W. Kruse |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
Photon Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors business.industry Detector Photon detector Physics::Optics Radiant energy Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials Wavelength Optics Operating temperature Thermal Optoelectronics High Energy Physics::Experiment business Noise (radio) |
| Zdroj: | Infrared Physics & Technology. 36:869-882 |
| ISSN: | 1350-4495 |
| Popis: | Photon detectors are fundamentally limited by generation-recombination noise arising from photon exchange with a radiating background. Thermal detectors are fundamentally limited by temperature fluctuation noise arising from radiant power exchange with a radiating background. These two classes of detectors have differing dependencies of their detectivities upon their operating temperature and that of the radiating background. The limits favor photon detectors at shorter wavelengths (LWIR) and lower operating temperatures. Thermal detectors are favored at longer wavelengths (VLWIR) and higher operating temperatures. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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