Passive terahertz camera for standoff security screening

被引:112
作者
Grossman, Erich [1 ]
Dietlein, Charles [1 ]
Ala-Laurinaho, Juha [3 ]
Leivo, Mikko
Gronberg, Leif
Gronholm, Markus
Lappalainen, Petteri [2 ]
Rautiainen, Anssi
Tamminen, Aleksi [3 ]
Luukanen, Arttu [2 ]
机构
[1] Natl Inst Stand & Technol, Div Optoelect, Boulder, CO 80305 USA
[2] VTT Tech Res Ctr Finland, Millimetrewave Lab Finland Millilab, Espoo, Finland
[3] Aalto Univ, Millimetrewave Lab Finland Millilab, Espoo, Finland
关键词
ELECTROTHERMAL FEEDBACK; NOISE; MICROBOLOMETER; BOLOMETERS;
D O I
10.1364/AO.49.00E106
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We describe the construction and performance of a passive, real-time terahertz camera based on a modular, 64-element linear array of cryogenic hotspot microbolometers. A reflective conical scanner sweeps out a 2 m x 4 m(vertical x horizontal) field of view (FOV) at a standoff range of 8 m. The focal plane array is cooled to 4 K in a closed cycle refrigerator, and the signals are detected on free-standing bridges of superconducting Nb or NbN at the feeds of broadband planar spiral antennas. The NETD of the focal-plane array, referred to the target plane and to a frame rate of 5 s(-1), is 1.25 K near the center of the array and 2 K overall. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America
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页码:E106 / E120
页数:15
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