A Study on Performance Test Methods for Cooled Infrared Detector

Kim, Jae-Won

Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology 2010;13(4):542-550.

Jae-Won Kim

냉각형 적외선 검출기 성능평가 기술 연구

김재원

국방과학연구소

Abstract

Cooled infrared detector is widely used as the core part in a variety of the thermal imaging systems. For the selection of the highly reliable cooled infrared detector with good performance, it is necessary for us to possess the characterization methods of the well defined performance index of cooled infrared detector. In this paper, various performance index of the cooled infrared detector including reliability as well as the optical and cooling performance of cooled infrared detector are defined and their characterization methods will be investigated and implemented systematically.

Key Words: Infrared Detector, Cooled, Performance Test, Optical Performance, Cooling Performance, Reliability, Vacuum Lifetime Reliability