GaAs/AlGaAs based multi-quantum well infrared detector arrays for low background applications

Details GaAs/AlGaAs based multi-quantum well infrared detector arrays for low background applications GaAs/AlGaAs based multi-quantum well infrared detector arrays for low background applications

Sep 2002

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Photonics for Space Environments VIII. Edited by Taylor, Edward W. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4823, pp. 80-87 (2002).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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A long-wavelength large format Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) focal plane array has been successfully used in a ground based astronomy experiment. QWIP arrays afford greater flexibility than the usual extrinsically doped semiconductor infrared (IR) arrays. Recently, we operated an infrared camera with a 256x256 QWIP array sensitive at 8.5 μm at the prime focus of the 5-m Hale telescope, obtaining the images. The remarkable noise stability - and low 1/f noise - of QWIP focal plane arrays enable camera to operate by modulating the optical signal with a nod period up to 100 s. A 500 s observation on dark sky renders a flat image with little indication of the low spatial frequency structures associated with imperfect sky substration or detector drifts. At low operating temperatures for low-background irradiance levels, high resistivity of thick barriers in the active region of QWIPs impeded electrons from entering the detector from the opposite electrode. This could lead to a delay in refilling the space-charge buildup, and result in a lower responsitivity at high optical modulation frequencies. In order to overcome this problem we have designed a new detector structure, the blocked intersubband detector (BID) with separate active quantum well region and blocking barrier.

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