Two-color thermal detector with thermal chopping for infrared focal-plane arrays

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2001, Pages 2601-2610

  Leonov, Vladimir N ^a   Butler, Donald P ^a,b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XenICs   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; BOLOMETERS; COLOR; INFRARED IMAGING; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; PYROELECTRICITY; SWITCHING; TUNING;

FOCAL-PLANE ARRAYS (FPA);

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0038163641     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002601     Document Type: Article

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