Approbation of method of IR-radiation detection based on ultrasonic thermometry

Nowadays the sources of long-wavelength optical radiation (far infrared, terahertz range) are developed intensively. They have good perspectives in different fields of biology, medicine, security systems etc. This implies the need to have the detectors of radiation with advanced parameters 1,2. Golay cell 3 is one of the most sensitive detector types available at the time being despite, the strong development of semiconductor detectors 4 – 6. In Golay cell the energy is measured by the expansion of the gas in the sealed chamber: the gas absorbs the energy and presses the flexible membrane, thus the change of volume is registered. The disadvantages of these detectors are relatively high price, big size and vibration susceptibility. In our paper we consider the method of radiation detecting that is similar to one that is used in Golay cell but based on gas temperature measurement.