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Fabrication and Evaluation of a Freestanding Pyproelectric Detector Made from Single-Crystal LiNbO3 Film
Published
Author(s)
John H. Lehman, A. M. Radojevic, R M. Osgood, M Levy, Chris Pannell
Abstract
We have packaged a rectangular 3 mm x 4 mm, 10-5m-thick Z-cut lithium niobate (LiNbOa) film produced by crystal ion slicing (CIS) and evaluated its performance as a pyroelectric optical detector. We justify the difficulty of preparing the film by showing that the freestanding detector has much greater sensitivity than the same detector bonded to a substrate. We compare the sensitivity of three CIS-film detectors with that of a detector based on a 230-5m-thick LiNbO3 plate and describe the detectors' spatial uniformity and noise-equivalent power.
Citation
Optics Letters
Volume
25
Issue
22
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
crystal ion slicing, current responsivity, ion implantation, pyroelectric detector
Citation
Lehman, J.
, Radojevic, A.
, Osgood, R.
, Levy, M.
and Pannell, C.
(2000),
Fabrication and Evaluation of a Freestanding Pyproelectric Detector Made from Single-Crystal LiNbO<sub>3</sub> Film, Optics Letters
(Accessed October 18, 2025)