Sensitive Terahertz Detectors: Room Temperature Terahertz Detectors based on Golay Cell.

Insight Product Company offers Room Temperature Terahertz (THz) Detectors

Room Temperature Terahertz Detectors: Golay Cells

 

Room Temperature Terahertz Detectors Type 2: Golay Cell

2.Golay Cell GC-1T 
Golay Detector with TPX Window


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Golay Cell is one of the most efficient detecting devices. It has excellent sensitivity at room temperature and flat optical response over a wide wavelength range.
Golay detectors are manufactured and individually calibrated in-house and supplied from stock. Delivery includes a detector head and a power supply unit. A mount for the filters can be supplied as an option.
Due to polyethylene window exchange to TPX one GC-1T detectors have wider operation wavelength range spreading down to visible/UV. They can be considered as good substitute to Diamond window model as TPX has higher transmittance in THz than Diamond and surely cheaper than the latter one. So GC-1T model is only slightly expensive than GC-1P detector.
Various THz optical components such as low pass filters, polyethylene polarizers as well as windows, lenses, and beamsplitters from HRFZ-Si and TPX can be supplied as a useful complement for THz applications. 
For transforming an analog signal of Golay cell to a digital signal we can offer  hardware-software complex. It is served for detecting, processing, and analyzing optoacoustical detector signals. The complex consists of  a specialized software and an electronic unit connecting Golay detector with personal computer through USB interface. 
Application:
Monitoring and control UV-NIR and THz radiation.
Technical specification:


Diameter of entrance cone, mm:

11.0

Diameter of entrance window, mm:

6.0

Material of entrance window:

Polymethylpentene (TPX)

Operating wavelength range, μm:

0.3 - 6.5 & 13 - 8000 (Frequency range: 37.5 GHz - 23 THz and 46 THz-996 THz)

Recommended detected power, W, up to:

1 x 10-5

Optimum modulation frequency, Hz:

15 ± 5

Noise-equivalent power @ 20Hz:
typical, W/Hz1/2
minimum, W/Hz1/2


1.4 x 10^-10 
0.8 x 10^-10

Optical responsivity @ 20Hz:
typical, V/W
maximum, V/W


1 x 10^5 
1.5 x 10^5

Response rate:
typical, ms
minimum, ms


30 
25

Detectivity (D*) at entrance cone aperture: 
typical, cm x Hz1/2/W
maximum, cm


7.0 x 10^9 
11.0 x 10^9

Ambient operating pressure range, mm Hg

760 x 10^-3

Operational and storage temperature range, degrees °C

5 - 40

Humidity, %

no special requirements

Vibration

avoid vibrations at 1 ÷ 100 Hz

Rated voltage, VAC

100/115 ± 10%, 
220/230 ± 10%

Line frequency, Hz

50 - 60

Overall dimensions, L x W x H, mm3

126 x 45 x 87

Weight, kg

0.8


 

 

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