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Mid-Infrared Tunable Resonant Cavity Enhanced Detectors

Quack, Niels  
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Blunier, Stefan
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Dual, Jurg
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2008
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

Mid-infrared detectors that are sensitive only in a tunable narrow spectral band are presented. They are based on the Resonant Cavity Enhanced Detector (RCED) principle and employing a thin active region using IV-VI narrow gap semiconductor layers. A Fabry-Pérot cavity is formed by two mirrors. The active layer is grown onto one mirror, while the second mirror can be displaced. This changes the cavity length thus shifting the resonances where the detector is sensitive. Using electrostatically actuated MEMS micromirrors, a very compact tunable detector system has been fabricated. Mirror movements of more than 3 μm at 30V are obtained. With these mirrors, detectors with a wavelength tuning range of about 0.7 μm have been realized. Single detectors can be used in mid-infrared micro spectrometers, while a detector arrangement in an array makes it possible to realize Adaptive Focal Plane Arrays (AFPA).

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DOI
10.3390/s8095466
PubMed ID

27873824

Author(s)
Quack, Niels  
Blunier, Stefan
Dual, Jurg
Felder, Ferdinand
Arnold, Martin
Zogg, Hans
Date Issued

2008

Published in
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Volume

8

Issue

9

Start page

5466

End page

5478

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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July 7, 2015
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