INFRARED AND ELECTRO-OPTIC TECHNOLOGY

Zeiss Axiomat and Nikon Multiphot

Nikon Photography Multiphot instructions

General Background References:

Physics of Detectors - An excellent reference on Detectors and general IR background (if I dont say so myself!)

Preamplifiers Design philosophy and background

Plancks Law Java applet

Blackbody Radiation Java applet

Thermal Radiation Java applet to calculate blackbody radiation using Planck's law. It takes the temperature and two wavelegths as input, and produces the emissive power (sigma*T^4), intensity, spectral intensity, fraction of area included within the band defined by the two wavelengths, and the band intensity (Siegel and Howell)

Optics

• Lenses and Concentrators

   

• Winston Cone - Graphic Demonstration -

• Winston Cone - Definition and general design parameters

  Winston Cone Ray Tracing - Ray tracing example

• Materials

Materials for 10 - 11 micron window

Material	Transmission (2mm) %	Properties	Cost
BaF2	95	Harmful, soft	Moderate
AgBr	80	Soft	Moderate
AgCl	85	Soft	Moderate
RbBr/Cl/I	65	Difficult to work	High
Ge	45	Soft	High
Si	35	Features in band	Moderate
KRS5 & 6	70	soft	High
CsI	70	Toxic IR to 55micron	High
TlBr	75	Very Toxic	High
NaCl	85	soft, Water soluble	Low
Teslar
HDPE
Teflon

Ocli Polished Substrates

Polymer Science Group IR Polymers

EKSMA Co. NIR Glasses

CRYSTRAN: Optics for Infra Red & Ultra Violet

Almaz Optics, Inc, Inc. - Optical Materials and Precision Optical Components

ThorLabs.com - Fiber Optics, Optics and Crystals

KEYSTONE CRYSTAL CORPORATION - Cadmium Telluride and Germanium Products

Detectors

General Background

Det Terms

Astro detector Development (up to 1994)

Pyroelectric Comparison Chart

Manufacturer	Part Number	Technology	Case	Element size (mm)	Standardised Detectivity D* (cm sqrt-hz/W)	Standardised NEP (W/sqrt-hz)	Price ($A)
GEC-Marconi	P 5314 (9930001)	DLATGS	T05	2x2	4.7 e+8	4.3 e-10	$905
GEC-Marconi	P 5314 (9930002)	DLATGS	T05	2x2	3.8 e+8	5.3 e-10	$905
Barnes Engineering	PY 56	Lithium Tantalate	T05	2x2	6.0 e+8	3.3 e-10	$520
Barnes Engineering	PY 45	DLTAGS	T05	2x2	1.9 e+9	1.8 e-10	$870
Molectron	P1-72	Lithium Tantalate	T05	2 dia	3.0 e+8	1.8 e-09	???
Infra Tec	LIE 312	Lithium Tantalate	T05	2 dia	1.2 e+8	???	???
Scitec	p 2613	???	T05	2 dia	2.0 e+8	1.0 e-09	???
Heinmann/ Perkin Elmer	LHi 808	???	T05	2 x2	1.6 e+8	9.4 e-10	???
Dias Angewandte Sensorik GMBH	LTS-1	???	T05	2x2	1.0 e+9	???	???
Intrel	101	Lithium Tantalate	T05	2 dia	1.5 e+9	1.0 e-10	$1600

Thermopile Comparison Chart

• Laser Components Inc. USA

  Molectron Detector, Inc.

  GEC-Marconi Infra-Red Ltd.

  Intrel

  Scitec (UK)

• Semiconductor

   

   

• Thermopile

   

   

• Bolometers

   

• Golay Cells

Cal-Source, arrays, ir

Pyroelectric Detectors: Laser Components Inc. USA

Laser components, optics and electro-optical systems spanning the ultraviolet (UV) to far infrared (IR): Laser Components Inc., USA:

Direct Detectors: NASA Space Instrument and Sensing Technology

Technical Bulletins

 

IR Detectors

ARC Direct Detector Technology Progress Report 9/94

Blackbody Radiation Applet

Thermal Radiation Infra Red CO2 bands H2O bands CO bands emission absorption applet

Black-Body Radiation

Thermo Thermodynamics Thermal Science properties steam refrigerants air conditioning java applets

Infrared Radiation From Gases

Thermo Thermodynamics Thermal Science properties steam refrigerants air conditioning java applets

Molectron Detector, Inc. -- P1-70 Radiometric Detectors

GEC-Marconi Infra-Red Ltd.

Marconi - This could be your Finest Hour

Marconi Search Results Page

5752-5756

Edge Detector Demo

MSSL Detector Physics Group

Everett Infrared and Electro-optic Technology - Physics of Detectors

Product List

Marconi Applied Technologies - Welcome - Home

ARC Direct Detector Technology Progress Report 9/94

 

Transition Edge Microbolometers

High-Tc bolometer development

High-Tc bolometer development

High-Tc Bolometer for far-infrared detection

Fast, Sensitive Pyroelectric Infrared Detectors

SensArray Products Page

Welcome to Brimrose

Welcome to Molectron Detector, Inc. -- Laser Probes, Laser Power Meters, Laser Energy Meters, and Laser Measurement Solutions

Winston Cone

Ray Tracing of VERITAS Winston Cone Plate at BU

Pyroelectric Product List

Everett Infrared and Electro-optic Technology - Preamplifiers

Cal Sensors infrared detectors, lead sulfide detectors, lead selenide detectors, thermopile detectors, infrared emitters, Cal-Source, arrays, ir

 

Laser components, optics and electro-optical systems spanning the ultraviolet (UV) to far infrared (IR): Laser Components Inc., USA:

Direct Detectors: NASA Space Instrument and Sensing Technology

Technical Bulletins

Det Terms

IR Detectors

BB Radiation

IR Absorption

EOI Home Page

IR Detectors

Optical Engineering

 

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Barclay_Tullis/links.html

TechExpo
Laser Focus (good links & other magazine links)
OSA Link List
Optics Links
Some Optics WWW Sites
Optics Org
Optics and Photonics Information, Planet Earth
Optical Science and Engineering (Resources and Links)
European Optical Society
Optical Society of America (with great optics news and links)
The Society for Imaging Science and Technology
The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
E-Tech Optics Links (Wow!!) (Jointly sponsored by OSA and publisher of Photonics Spectra)
SPIE
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
U Mass, EE (see CEMOS and Courses in Diffractive Optics)
Optical Computing at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh
Optomechanics for Free Space Optical Systems
National Academy of Science's Committee on Optical Science and Engineering (COSE)
Stanford University's US-Japan Technology Management Center (see public seminars on optoelectronics)
Optics and Radiometry at CSIRO in Austrailia
Micro-optics and Diffraction Modeling (Light Pipes)
Optics Software (FTP Site at University of Central Florida)
Color Engineering/Science (lots of links on this subject)
Color Publishing
Non-Imaging Illumination (Prof. Roland Winston)
Geometry-Driven Diffusion
Light.Net
Focus Software Inc. (ZEEMAX, Opticad, etc.)
Breault Research Organization, Inc. (ASAP)
Software Spectra Inc.
MM Research, Inc. (makers of DIFFRACT simulation software)

 

updated jre 14 april 2000