Barriers to background-limited performance for uncooled IR sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5406, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 454-464

  Hanson, Charles M ^a  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Background limit; Eye response; Spatial noise; Temperature fluctuation noise; Thermal imaging; Uncooled infrared

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND LIMIT; EYE RESPONSE; SPATIAL NOISE; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION NOISE; UNCOOLED INFRARED;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BOLOMETERS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 10044287327     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.548623     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. C.M. Hanson, & quot;Analysis of the effects of 1/f noise and choppers on the performance of dc-coupled thermal imaging systems", Infrared Technology and Applications XXVII, B.F. Andresen, G.F. Fulop, and M. Strojnik, editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4369, 2001, p.360.
2. C.M. Hanson, & quot;Uncooled IR detector performance limits and barriers", Infrared Detectors and Focal Plane Arrays VI, E.L. Dereniak and R.E. Sampson, editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4028, 2000, p.2.