Enhanced bandwidth in radiation sensors operating at the fundamental temperature fluctuation noise limit
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| author | Zhang, Chang Louis-Seize, Zachary Brazeau, Maxime Hodges, Timothy Turgeon-Roy, Mathis St-Gelais, Raphael |
| author_facet | Zhang, Chang Louis-Seize, Zachary Brazeau, Maxime Hodges, Timothy Turgeon-Roy, Mathis St-Gelais, Raphael |
| contents | Temperature-based radiation detectors are an essential tool for long optical wavelengths detection even if they often suffer from important bandwidth limitations. Their responsivity, and hence their noise equivalent power (NEP), typically degrade at frequencies exceeding the cutoff set by their characteristic thermal response time ($τ_\text{th}$), i.e., at $ω> τ_\text{th}^{-1}$. Here we show that this bandwidth limitation can be broken when a radiation sensor operates at its fundamental temperature fluctuation noise limit. The key enabler of this demonstration is a nanomechanical sensor in which frequency stability is limited by fundamental temperature fluctuations over an unprecedentedly large bandwidth of 54 $\text{Hz}$. In this range, the sensor performance remains within a factor 3 from its peak detectivity ($D_T^* = 7.4 \times 10^9~\mathrm{cm \cdot Hz^{1/2} W^{-1}}$) even though the thermal cutoff frequency is 30 times lower (i.e., $1/2\mathrmπ τ_\text{th} = 1.8~\text{Hz}$). We also derive and validate experimentally closed-form expression predicting maximum bandwidth enhancement in the context of nanomechanical resonators interfaced with a closed-loop frequency tracking scheme. |
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| spellingShingle | Enhanced bandwidth in radiation sensors operating at the fundamental temperature fluctuation noise limit Zhang, Chang Louis-Seize, Zachary Brazeau, Maxime Hodges, Timothy Turgeon-Roy, Mathis St-Gelais, Raphael Optics Applied Physics Temperature-based radiation detectors are an essential tool for long optical wavelengths detection even if they often suffer from important bandwidth limitations. Their responsivity, and hence their noise equivalent power (NEP), typically degrade at frequencies exceeding the cutoff set by their characteristic thermal response time ($τ_\text{th}$), i.e., at $ω> τ_\text{th}^{-1}$. Here we show that this bandwidth limitation can be broken when a radiation sensor operates at its fundamental temperature fluctuation noise limit. The key enabler of this demonstration is a nanomechanical sensor in which frequency stability is limited by fundamental temperature fluctuations over an unprecedentedly large bandwidth of 54 $\text{Hz}$. In this range, the sensor performance remains within a factor 3 from its peak detectivity ($D_T^* = 7.4 \times 10^9~\mathrm{cm \cdot Hz^{1/2} W^{-1}}$) even though the thermal cutoff frequency is 30 times lower (i.e., $1/2\mathrmπ τ_\text{th} = 1.8~\text{Hz}$). We also derive and validate experimentally closed-form expression predicting maximum bandwidth enhancement in the context of nanomechanical resonators interfaced with a closed-loop frequency tracking scheme. |
| title | Enhanced bandwidth in radiation sensors operating at the fundamental temperature fluctuation noise limit |
| topic | Optics Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21678 |