Calibration source and temperature standard for passive millimetre wave imagers

Chris T. Taylor; Peter Scicluna; Peter Wilkinson; Neil Salmon

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Calibration source and temperature standard for passive millimetre wave imagers

Chris T. Taylor, Peter Scicluna, Peter Wilkinson, Neil Salmon

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This paper discusses a practical and affordable approach to the accurate calibration of electronic beam-forming passive millimetre-wave imagers. With the aim of calibrating imagers with radiometric sensitivities δT <1 K, we have constructed a thermal radiation source at ambient temperature that fills the imager field-of-view at close range and can support several controllable thermal radiation sources to provide absolute and differential radiation temperature standards. Using a variety of temperature sensors, which have been extensively cross-calibrated against each other and a commercially provided calibration standard that is accurate to <0.1 K, we have achieved absolute and relative calibration temperature uncertainties of less than 0.25 K. © 2010 SPIE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering\|Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng
Place of Publication	Proc. SPIE 7837, 78370N (2010)
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	7837
ISBN (Print)	9780819483553
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.864847
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Millimetre Wave and Terahertz Sensors and Technology III - Toulouse Duration: 1 Jul 2010 → …

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Conference	Millimetre Wave and Terahertz Sensors and Technology III
City	Toulouse
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Keywords

Calibration
Imagers
Millimetre wave
Passive
Temperature standard

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Taylor, CT, Scicluna, P, Wilkinson, P & Salmon, N 2010, Calibration source and temperature standard for passive millimetre wave imagers. in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering|Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. vol. 7837, SPIE, Proc. SPIE 7837, 78370N (2010), Millimetre Wave and Terahertz Sensors and Technology III, Toulouse, 1/07/10. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.864847

Calibration source and temperature standard for passive millimetre wave imagers. / Taylor, Chris T.; Scicluna, Peter; Wilkinson, Peter et al.
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering|Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. Vol. 7837 Proc. SPIE 7837, 78370N (2010): SPIE, 2010.

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Calibration source and temperature standard for passive millimetre wave imagers

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