Optical Radiation Detectors

Optical Radiation Detectors
Author: E. L. Dereniak
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1984
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Optical Radiation Detectors, Eustace L. Dereniak and Devon G.Crowe Offers a comprehensive, integrated treatment of optical radiationdetectors, discussing their capabilities and limitations.Background material on radiometry, noise sources, and detectorphysics is introduced, followed by more detailed discussions ofphoton detectors, thermal detectors, and charge transfer arrays ofdetectors.

The Properties of Optical Radiation Detectors and Radiometers

The Properties of Optical Radiation Detectors and Radiometers
Author: George P. Eppeldauer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2020-08-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1527558479

This is the first book to investigate the improved performance of optical radiation detectors developed from the ultraviolet to the far-infrared in the past two decades. The development and applications of these improved detectors opened up a new era in radiometric, photometric, colorimetric, and radiation-temperature measurements where earlier blackbody sources and lamps were used with lower performance and in limited application areas. This book will serve to help students, practicing scientists, engineers, technicians, and instrument manufacturers to learn, compare and select the proper detectors for building, using, and calibrating opto-electronic instruments with SI traceability and lowered measurement uncertainty in extended application areas.

Optical Detector Applications for Radiometric Measurements

Optical Detector Applications for Radiometric Measurements
Author: George P. Eppeldauer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1527561321

The recently developed optical radiation detectors need well-designed radiometers to perform improved radiometric, photometric, colorimetric, and radiation-temperature measurements. They can produce higher performance than traditionally used blackbody sources and lamps in wider application areas. This book presents research-based material in this field that has been implemented, realized, tested, verified, and evaluated. It can be used as a reference source for students, practicing scientists, engineers, technicians, instrument manufacturers and measurement/calibration people to learn, design, build, select, and use new generation radiometers. The book describes a number of design issues and applications to implement the correct input geometry for detectors to measure radiometric (power, irradiance and radiance) quantities, and DC, AC, and pulsed electrical output signals.

Radiometry and the Detection of Optical Radiation

Radiometry and the Detection of Optical Radiation
Author: Robert W. Boyd
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 275
Release: 1983-05-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 047186188X

Presents a treatment of fundamental aspects of the generation, transfer and detection of optical and infra-red radiation. Emphasis placed on practical aspects of radiometry in detection. Discusses formal principles of radiometry, signal-to-noise considerations in the detection of optical radiation, and the operation of various radiation detectors. Includes tables and graphs of blackbody functions.

Detection of Optical and Infrared Radiation

Detection of Optical and Infrared Radiation
Author: R. H. Kingston
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540359486

This text treats the fundamentals of optical and infrared detection in terms of the behavior of the radiation field, the physical properties of the detector, and the statistical behavior of the detector output. Both incoherent and coherent detection are treated in a unified manner, after which selected applications are analyzed, following an analysis of atmospheric effects and signal statistics. The material was developed during a one-semester course at M.I.T. in 1975, revised and presented again in 1976 at Lincoln Laboratory, and rewritten for publication in 1977. Chapter 1 reviews the derivation of Planck's thermal radiation law and also presents several fundamental concepts used throughout the text. These include the three thermal distribution laws (Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, Bose Einstein), spontaneous and stimulated emission, and the definition and counting of electromagnetic modes of space. Chapter 2 defines and analyzes the perfect photon detector and calculates the ultimate sensitivity in the presence of thermal radiation. In Chapter 3, we turn from incoherent or power detection to coherent or heterodyne detection and use the concept of orthogonal spatial modes to explain the antenna theorem and the mixing theorem. Chapters 4 through 6 then present a detailed analysis of the sensitivity of vacuum and semiconductor detectors, including the effects of amplifier noise.

Optical Detector and Radiometer Standards

Optical Detector and Radiometer Standards
Author: George P. Eppeldauer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1527563286

This book discusses modern, user-friendly radiometric practices that make it possible to convert from traditional source-based optical radiation measurements to the more efficient and higher accuracy detector-based applications and calibrations. It considers improved performance optical detector and radiometer standards including photometers and tristimulus colorimeters, and describes research-based design considerations, measurement of radiometric, optical, and electronic characteristics, and comparison of absolute-, transfer-, and working-standard detectors and radiometers from the ultraviolet (UV) to the infrared (IR) range. The book will serve to guide the optical radiation measurement community, researchers, manufacturers, calibration laboratories, students, and practicing engineers to switch from the old and limited-use measurement methods to the higher performance detector-based applications. The radiometer standards discussed here can be used to produce wide range radiometric, photometric, colour, and radiation temperature measurements with low uncertainty.

A Compendium on Optical Radiation Detectors

A Compendium on Optical Radiation Detectors
Author: Noel Edwin Van Slyke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 576
Release: 1967
Genre: Optical instruments
ISBN:

The report is a short treatise on optical radiation detectors. It is intended to be used as a reference work by persons who wish to measure radiation in the optical portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The optical spectrum lies between 0.01 micron and 1,000 microns. There are sections on the theory of detection and cateloged data on commercially available detectors. (Author).

Absolute Radiometry

Absolute Radiometry
Author: F Hengstberger
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2012-12-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0323157866

Absolute Radiometry: Electrically Calibrated Thermal Detectors of Optical Radiation considers the application of absolute radiometry, a technique employed in optical radiation metrology for the absolute measurement of radiant power. This book is composed of eight chapters and begins with the principles of the absolute measurement of radiant power. The subsequent chapters provide the criteria associated with reflectance and transmittance of optical radiation and the parameters used to characterize the performance of radiation detectors. A chapter presents an analysis of the temperature distribution in a detector element. This topic is followed by discussions of the environmental and instrumental corrections in absolute radiometry. The final chapters deal with the alternative optical power scales and direct current substitution methods used in other fields of metrology.