Can the 300K radiating background noise limit be attained by uncooled thermal imagers?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5406, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 437-446

  Kruse, Paul W ^a  

^a Infrared Technology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; DETECTORS; FILTRATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; THERMOCOUPLES;

OPTICAL FILTERING; RESISTIVE BOLOMETERS; THERMAL DETECTORS; UNCOOLED THERMAL IMAGERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 10044220961     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.539388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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