Embodiments relate generally to electromagnetic radiation detector devices, systems, and methods using a planar Golay cell. A method for gas detection may comprise providing a gas sealed in a cavity of a gas detector; directing radiative power from a light source through one or more target gases and through a cell body of the gas detector toward the cavity and a wavelength selective absorber of the gas detector, wherein the one or more target gases are located between the light source and the cavity; setting wavelength sensitivity with the wavelength selective absorber, wherein the wavelength sensitivity is irrespective of an angle of incidence (?); absorbing the radiative power by the wavelength selective absorber and by the one or more target gases; detecting, by a pressure sensing element, a pressure change caused by the absorbing of the radiative power; and determining the one or more target gases based on the detected pressure change.

Embodiments relate generally to electromagnetic radiation detector devices, systems, and methods using a planar Golay cell. A method for gas detection may comprise providing a gas sealed in a cavity of a gas detector; directing radiative power from a light source through one or more target gases and through a cell body of the gas detector toward the cavity and a wavelength selective absorber of the gas detector, wherein the one or more target gases are located between the light source and the cavity; setting wavelength sensitivity with the wavelength selective absorber, wherein the wavelength sensitivity is irrespective of an angle of incidence (?); absorbing the radiative power by the wavelength selective absorber and by the one or more target gases; detecting, by a pressure sensing element, a pressure change caused by the absorbing of the radiative power; and determining the one or more target gases based on the detected pressure change.

A terahertz wave pulse wave amplitude modulation signal and an optical pulse amplitude modulation signal conversion amplifier includes a rectangular cavity, an absorption cavity, a metal block, a first waveguide, a second waveguide, three metal films, a terahertz pulse wave and a reference light; the rectangular cavity is located at the terahertz pulse wave input port, an incident port of the terahertz pulse wave is located at an upper port of the absorption cavity, and the absorption cavity is connected with a first waveguide; the metal block is disposed within the first waveguide, and is movable; the first waveguide is connected with a second waveguide; and an output power of the reference light is in correspondence with a power of an input terahertz pulse wave.

Embodiments relate generally to electromagnetic radiation detector devices, systems, and methods using a planar Golay cell. One device includes a cell body forming a cavity therein, wherein the cavity includes a wavelength selective absorber having a predetermined absorption spectral range and the cavity is filled with a gas and a pressure sensing element fluidly connected to the cavity to measure a change in pressure within the cavity. One device may include a plurality of planar Golay cells, wherein the cell bodies of the Golay cells are stacked against one another, wherein the pressure sensing elements of the Golay cells are located adjacent to the stacked sides of the cell bodies, and wherein radiation from a single light source is directed through the plurality of Golay cells.

Embodiments relate generally to electromagnetic radiation detector devices, systems, and methods using a planar Golay cell. One device includes a cell body forming a cavity therein, wherein the cavity includes a wavelength selective absorber having a predetermined absorption spectral range and the cavity is filled with a gas and a pressure sensing element fluidly connected to the cavity to measure a change in pressure within the cavity. One device may include a plurality of planar Golay cells, wherein the cell bodies of the Golay cells are stacked against one another, wherein the pressure sensing elements of the Golay cells are located adjacent to the stacked sides of the cell bodies, and wherein radiation from a single light source is directed through the plurality of Golay cells.

Embodiments relate generally to electromagnetic radiation detector devices, systems, and methods using a planar Golay cell. One device includes a cell body forming a cavity therein, wherein the cavity includes a wavelength selective absorber having a predetermined absorption spectral range and the cavity is filled with a gas and a pressure sensing element fluidly connected to the cavity to measure a change in pressure within the cavity. One device may include a plurality of planar Golay cells, wherein the cell bodies of the Golay cells are stacked against one another, wherein the pressure sensing elements of the Golay cells are located adjacent to the stacked sides of the cell bodies, and wherein radiation from a single light source is directed through the plurality of Golay cells.

Embodiments relate generally to electromagnetic radiation detector devices, systems, and methods using a planar Golay cell. One device includes a cell body forming a cavity therein, wherein the cavity includes a wavelength selective absorber having a predetermined absorption spectral range and the cavity is filled with a gas and a pressure sensing element fluidly connected to the cavity to measure a change in pressure within the cavity. One device may include a plurality of planar Golay cells, wherein the cell bodies of the Golay cells are stacked against one another, wherein the pressure sensing elements of the Golay cells are located adjacent to the stacked sides of the cell bodies, and wherein radiation from a single light source is directed through the plurality of Golay cells.

Gas detector devices, systems, and methods using a Golay cell are described herein. One device includes a microphone having a front surface with a sound collecting aperture for receiving sound, a substrate, a gas cavity formed in the substrate such that the gas cavity is in gas communication with the sound collecting aperture and the front surface forms a side surface of the gas cavity, and a window abutting the substrate to form a side surface of the gas cavity.

Gas detector devices, systems, and methods using a Golay cell are described herein. One device includes a microphone having a front surface with an sound collecting aperture for receiving sound, a substrate, a gas cavity formed in the substrate such that the gas cavity is in gas communication with the sound collecting aperture and the front surface forms a side surface of the gas cavity, and a window abutting the substrate to form a side surface of the gas cavity.

Gas detector devices, systems, and methods using a Golay cell are described herein. One device includes a microphone having a front surface with an sound collecting aperture for receiving sound, a substrate, a gas cavity formed in the substrate such that the gas cavity is in gas communication with the sound collecting aperture and the front surface forms a side surface of the gas cavity, and a window abutting the substrate to form a side surface of the gas cavity.