Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 49, Issue 1, 103008(2020)

GaAs/AlGaAs QWIP IRFPA for 10.55 μm long wavelength

Li Xiangyang*, Li Ning, Xu Jintong, Chu Kaihui, Xu Guoqing, Wang Ling, Zhang Yan, Zhu Longyuan, Wang Jiqiang, and Lu Wei
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    640×512 Quantum Well Infrared Photo-detector(QWIP) long wavelength infrared(LWIR) focal plane arrays(FPA) were made by using GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well structure. The response spectra were at 10.55 μm. Integrated with rotation sterling cooler which gave a temperature of 50 K, the FPA was measured to find the results that NETD was about 22.5 mK. The FPA assembly kept good performance after the switch-on-off cycling test and thermal vacuum test. The illumination non-uniformity of the focal plane with a cold shield was calculated with a numerical method. The results were compared with the approximate analytic method. It is shown that numerical method should be used for small F-numbers. Thus, the measured non-uniformity is believed to be dominated by the illumination non-uniformity. By using the MEEP FDTD software, calculation about the near-field photo-coupled electrical-field energy were designed and results show that current QWIP structure parameters are near optimized in term of optical diffraction.

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    Li Xiangyang, Li Ning, Xu Jintong, Chu Kaihui, Xu Guoqing, Wang Ling, Zhang Yan, Zhu Longyuan, Wang Jiqiang, Lu Wei. GaAs/AlGaAs QWIP IRFPA for 10.55 μm long wavelength[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2020, 49(1): 103008

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    Paper Information

    Category: 特约专栏———新型红外器件

    Received: Oct. 5, 2019

    Accepted: Nov. 15, 2019

    Published Online: Jun. 8, 2020

    The Author Email: Xiangyang Li (lixy@mail.sitp.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/irla202049.0103008

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