Detection of terahertz radiation from quantum cascade laser, using vanadium oxide microbolometer focal plane arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6940, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Oda, Naoki ^a   Yoneyama, Hajime ^a   Sasaki, Tokuhito ^a   Sano, Masahiko ^a   Kurashina, Seiji ^a   Hosako, Iwao ^b   Sekine, Norihiko ^b   Sudoh, Takayuki ^c   Irie, Tomoko ^d  

^a NEC Guidance and Electro Optics Division

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c MLB Division   (Japan)

^d NEC San ei Instruments Ltd

Author keywords

Focal plane arrays; Microbolometer; Real time imaging; Terahertz; THz absorption layer

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; FOCUSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED RADIATION; LASERS; MICROFLUIDICS; OXIDES; PIXELS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; RADIATION; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSITION METALS; VANADIUM; VANADIUM ALLOYS; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

ABSORPTION LAYERS; CONTINUOUS WAVE TERAHERTZ (THZ) RADIATION; FOCAL PLANES; FRAME INTEGRATION; INFRARED FOCAL PLANE ARRAY (IRFPA); INFRARED TECHNOLOGIES; MICRO(UNCOOLED) BOLOMETER; NOISE-EQUIVALENT POWER (NEP); OPERATION TEMPERATURES; PIXEL STRUCTURE; QUANTUM CASCADE (QC); QUANTUM CASCADE (QC) LASERS; REAL-TIME IMAGING; TERAHERTZ (THZ) RADIATION; THZ EMISSIONS; THZ SIGNALS; TIME AVERAGED POWER; TRANSMISSIVITY; VANADIUM (V) OXIDES;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 45549089294     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.781630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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