Uncooled FPA with optical reading: Reaching the theoretical limit

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5783, Issue PART II, 2005, Pages 483-495

  Secundo, Lavi ^a   Lubianiker, Yoram ^a   Agranat, Aharon J ^a,b  

^a Namal Technologies Ltd   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COOLING; CRYSTALS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; INFRARED RADIATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; OPTICAL READING; PARALELECTRIC PHASE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 26444499560     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.606756     Document Type: Conference Paper

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