Based on the analysis of the physical thermal model for a microbolometer under pulse bias, a new temperature compensation method for microbolometric focal plane array is proposed to compensate the substrate temperature fluctuation in microbolometric array. The self-heating and infrared responding voltage expressions of the microbolometer under pulse current bias are derived from the heat balance equation of the physical thermal model for the microbolometer, and these two expressions indicate that the microbolometer self-heating and infrared vol...