• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 51, Issue 8, 20210918 (2022)
Bing Yu1、2, Junwei Chu2, Jihong Fan2, Guoqi Teng2, Man Wang2, Chuansen Yang3, Lei Guo2, Linguang Yuan2, Yan Li2, and Weiqi Jin1
Author Affiliations
  • 1MOE Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Imaging Technology and System, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
  • 2Xi’an Institute of Applied Optics, Xi’an 710065, China
  • 3Beijing Orient Institute of Metrology and Measurement Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20210918 Cite this Article
    Bing Yu, Junwei Chu, Jihong Fan, Guoqi Teng, Man Wang, Chuansen Yang, Lei Guo, Linguang Yuan, Yan Li, Weiqi Jin. Design of the absorption cavity in the cryogenic radiometer based on the ray-tracing method[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(8): 20210918 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Based on the equivalent electrical and optical heating process, radiometers are employed for the metrology of irradiation powers. Working at the liquid helium temperature, the cryogenic radiometer is designed to reduce the nonspontaneous heating by the electric components in the system and is thus currently the most accurate irradiation power metrology measurement facility. During the calibration process of an ideal cryogenic radiometer, the core device-absorption cavity should demonstrate an equivalent temperature increase for the same optical and electrical heating power. However, practical heating routines lack equivalency due to the divergence in the temperature gradient from the complicated optical-matter interactions in black coatings. Herein, utilizing the ray-tracing method, we investigate the tilting angle-dependent spatial optical field distribution in the absorption cavity. With the inclined base angle of the absorption chamber controlled at 60° and the absorption rate of the coating reaching 0.95, the energy of the laser is absorbed in the first and second reflection processes of 98% and 1.9%, respectively, with a ratio of 51.2∶1. The coincidence of the optical and electrical heating paths could thus be realized by placing heaters simultaneously on the inclined bottom plate and the lower side of the absorption cavity. Furthermore, by calculating the time-dependent system temperature with a single inclined bottom heater and calculating the double heater arrangement, an optical-electrical nonequivalency induced by the different heating paths of approximately 0.005% is indicated. Our method constructs an equivalent heating routine for optical and electronic sources, indicating a nonequivalency of 0.005% induced by the different arrangements of heaters. Multiheaters applied with delicate power are recommended to optimize the temperature discrepancy.
    Bing Yu, Junwei Chu, Jihong Fan, Guoqi Teng, Man Wang, Chuansen Yang, Lei Guo, Linguang Yuan, Yan Li, Weiqi Jin. Design of the absorption cavity in the cryogenic radiometer based on the ray-tracing method[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(8): 20210918
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