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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

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 April 19, 2024)
Created November 14, 2000, Updated October 12, 2021