摘要:
A photon detector based upon photon-assisted tunneling in superconductor-insulator-superconductor or super-Schottky structures, in which the superconductor is a high transition temperature superconductor. An electrical bias is provided on either side of such structures so that photo-assisted tunneling, in the presence of incident photons on the structure, can occur to thereby permit a tunneling current therebetween.
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A monolithic integrated focal plane sensor array having elements sensitive to IR radiation and elements sensitive to mm-wave radiation. The sensor elements of the array sensitive to mm-wave have microantennas coupled to the sensors.
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A thin film pyroelectric imaging array fabricated as a Si wafer. A thin film of PbTiO.sub.3 is deposited on a thermally isolated bridge. The bridge suspends the PbTio.sub.3 sensor over a preferentially etched cavity in the Si wafer. Improved thermal isolation increases the responsivity of the sensor to incident radiation. The pyroelectric sensor formed can operate effectively at room temperature.
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Apparatus for determining the composition of mercury-cadmium-telluride or other alloy semiconductors by using a four-photon mixing phenomenon. Means are provided for a pair of colinear laser beams of different optical frequencies such that the colinear beams passed through a sample of Hg.sub.1-x Cd.sub.x Te or other alloy semiconductors to produce emissions beams of the original incident optical frequencies and two or more additional optical frequencies formed by an electron spin-flip interaction. A magnetic field means is employed for varying a magnetic field across the sample during passage of the colinear beam from the points substantially below to substantially above the resonant field of the sample to produce a spin-flip signal which has a peak amplitude. Detector means are adapted to receive the emission beams to identify the spin-flip signal peak from which the spin-level splitting factor can be measured. Upon measurement of the spin-level splitting factor, the value for x can be calculated in Hg.sub.1-x Cd.sub.x Te or other alloy semiconductor.
摘要:
Disclosed are cascaded spin-flip Raman lasers involving alloy semiconductors such as mercury cadmium telluride with different energy gaps or with an energy gap gradient to provide for a relatively large change in frequency for a small change in field and enabling operation at low magnetic field levels where the output power and conversion efficiency are high.