title: Fabrication and evaluation of a freestanding pyroelectric detector made from single-crystal LiNbO(3) film.
abstract: We have packaged a rectangular 3 mm x 4 mm, 10-mum-thick Z-cut lithium niobate (LiNbO(3)) 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-mum-thick LiNbO(3) plate and describe the detectors' spatial uniformity and noise-equivalent power.
authors: J H
authors: JH
authors: Lehman
authors: A M
authors: AM
authors: Radojevic
authors: R M
authors: RM
authors: Osgood
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Levy
authors: C N
authors: CN
authors: Pannell