Spectral radiometry
Subtitle: a new approach based on electro-optics
By: Jon Geist ... [el al.] ; Optical Physics Division.
Contributors: Geist, Jon.; Institute for Basic Standards (U.S.). Optical Physics Division.
Series: NBS technical note ; 954; NBS technical note -- 954.
Publisher: Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Institute for Basic Standards, Optical Physics Division : for sale by the Supt of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Radiation -- Measurement.; Electrooptical devices.
Description: This Technical Note described the vision, later realized, for replacing the then conventional approach to high accuracy radiometry, which was based on blackbodies and standard lamps, by a new approach based on modern electro-optical technology.  This technical note predated the development of silicon photodiode self-calibration and the electrically calibrated cryogenic radiometer, relying instead on the electrically calibrated radiometer as a high-accuracy radiant power standard.  The use of amplitude stabilized lasers and tunable dye lasers in radiometry was also discussed.
Notes: CODEN: NBTNAE.

Extended version of paper presented at 7th International Symposium of IMEKO Technical Committee on Photo-Detectors, Braunschweig, W. Germany, 5/17-19/1976.

Issued July 1977.

Bibliography: p. 15-16.
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