Photon Statistics and Spectral Selectivity Limits of Thermal Detectors
Abstract
The three primary goals of the program have remained largely the same throughout the program, and we need only slightly modify and abridge the original proposal text to write: 1) Model the contribution of Bose-Einstein statistics to the photon noise of radiation-limited thermal detectors, for both single radiation mode and multimode detectors. 2) Theoretically and experimentally quantify the dominant phenomena that cause uncertainty or fluctuations in the rest position of a thermal detector. For devices with high sensitivity and spectral resolution, these will include photon counting noise, and thermomechanical noise. 3) Develop radiation noise theory for extremely narrow spectrum thermal detectors that includes an accounting of the cavity-altered density of states.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 30, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1091230
Entities
People
- Joseph Talghader
Organizations
- University of Minnesota