QWEST: Quantum well infrared earth science testbed

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7086, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Johnson, William R ^a   Hook, Simon J ^a   Mouroulis, Pantazis Z ^a   Wilson, Daniel W ^a   Gunapala, Sarath D ^a   Hill, Cory J ^a   Mumolo, Jason M ^a   Eng, Bjorn T ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; QWIP; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON OPTICS; INFRARED DETECTORS; LIGHT; OPTICAL DESIGN; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETRY; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUE; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; ELECTRON-BEAM; ENTIRE SYSTEM; GENERAL DESCRIPTION; IMAGING; IMAGING SPECTROMETRY; KEYSTONE DISTORTION; LONG-WAVE INFRARED; NON-UNIFORMITY CORRECTION; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCES; QUANTUM WELLS; QWIP; RADIOMETRIC ACCURACY; SPECTRAL CALIBRATION; SPECTROSCOPY; STRAY-LIGHT; TEMPERATURE RANGES; TEST BEDS; ULTRA COMPACT; ULTRA-PRECISION;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 52649100003     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.802225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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