Suppression of cryocooler-induced microphonics in infrared imagers

The paper examines the idea of using externally mounted wideband dynamic absorbers for suppressing the above resonant responses and associated microphonic noise. The suggested analytical model relies on a set of complex frequency response functions experimentally captured on the original infrared package. The optimised dynamic absorber yields about a tenfold suppression of the resonant responses and a threefold attenuation of the overall RMS level of microphonic noise. The results of the analytical prediction are in fair agreement with experimental data.