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Article: VisGaAs camera sees RED ... and more: seeing both infrared and visible light creates new opportunities for infrared cameras.
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- R & D
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- March 1, 2004
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Images from nightly news broadcasts are striking; stilted video of gray-green vehicles and soldiers moving stealthily through the desert night, or the sudden bloom of an explosion that whites out the screen as a laser-guided missile finds its target. To most people, these are the images that define what they think of as infrared (IR) technology. Based on near-IR image intensifiers and long-wave IR cameras, night vision systems and thermal imagers have changed the way warfare is waged.
As with many other technologies that were developed primarily for the military, IR camera technology is now being used in more mainstream applications as well. The advent of uncooled ...