California, Nevada Inventors Develop Imaging Device

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 27, 2007 ;     371 words ......temperature compensation of an uncooled focal plane array. According to the U.S. Patent...A plurality of temperature dependent focal plane arrays operate without a temperature...indexed by the measured temperature of the focal plane arrays. The memory stores a calibration...

Echelle grating spectrometers

Spectroscopy;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......image of the entrance slit at the focal plane of the spectrometer (1, 2). Figure...image of the entrance slit at the focal plane. The position of the image of the entrance slit along the focal plane depends on the wavelength of the...

Sensors Unlimited awarded $4.5 million from DARPA's MTO group to develop...

Fiber Optics Weekly Update;  October 7, 2005 ;     329 words ......dual-wavelength, visible and shortwave infrared focal plane array (FPA). The uncooled, InGaAs focal plane array will enable very high-resolution...will result in breakthrough advances in focal plane array performance. The new FPA will have...

NORTHROP GRUMMAN RECEIVES CONTRACT FROM U.S. ARMY

PR Newswire;  February 23, 1995 ;     407 words ......Defense Command to manufacture smart focal plane electronics. Smart focal planes are...ultra compact structures directly on the focal plane. Current signal processing practices...electronics packages located remotely from the focal plane at higher cost, weight, power and volume...

WIPO: Inventor in Massachusetts Develops Large-Aperture Focal Plane...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 4, 2008 ;     194 words ......Medway, Mass., have developed a focal plane shutter. According to an abstract...invention aims to describe a "compact focal plane shutter system adapted for large-format exposure shutters. The focal plane shutter includes at least one multi-segment...

British Inventor Develops Human Body Standard Calibration Apparatus

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 21, 2006 ;     318 words ......apparatus and a method for calibrating focal plane detector. According to the U.S. Patent...Office, the invention relates to a "focal plane detector adapted to be calibrated using...Further, a method of calibrating a focal plane detector having a plurality of detector...

Texas Inventors Develop Focal Plane Arrays for Detectors

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 11, 2008 ;     252 words ......developed a methods for integrating focal plane arrays. The patent has been assigned...capability using an integrated multi-band focal plane array that, in one example, may be employed...spectrum using an integrated dual-band focal plane array, e.g., by including visible imaging...

Extending the Range of MCT Focal Plane Arrays-Based Imaging Systems to...

Spectroscopy;  March 1, 2008 ;     513 words ......Imaging, the technology of coupling a focal-plane array to an FTIR to generate chemical...inhomogeneous samples. Initial development of focal-plane arrays in the mid-IR (2 to 10 m) was...detectors. The result is that cameras using focal plane arrays are designed with optical ...

Sensors Unlimited Awarded $4.5M from DARPA's MTO Group to Develop...

PR Newswire;  September 28, 2005 ;     523 words ......dual-wavelength, visible and shortwave infrared focal plane array (FPA). The uncooled, InGaAs focal plane array will enable very high-resolution...will result in breakthrough advances in focal plane array performance. The new FPA will have...

California Inventors Develop Microbolometer Focal Plane Array System

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 13, 2006 ;     242 words ......Calif., have developed microbolometer focal plane array systems and methods. According...Systems and methods for microbolometer focal plane arrays are disclosed. For example, in...the present invention, microbolometer focal plane array circuitry is disclosed for a microbolometer...

Water- and fog-proof scope.(Shooting range)

Law Enforcement Product News;  September 1, 2008 ;     128 words ......like parallax adjustments and a First Focal Plane Mil-Dot reticle that allows users to...to the target shot after shot. First Focal Plane Mil-Dot reticle allows users to estimate...settings. With the reticle at first focal plane, the reticle expands as the magnification...

U.S., Egyptian Inventors Develop Infrared/Millimeter-Wave Focal Plane...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 15, 2008 ;     306 words ......Alexandria, Egypt, have developed a dual-band focal plane array. According to the U.S. Patent...Office: "An antenna-coupled dual-band focal plane array for detecting radiation in the...millimeter-wave bands. The dual-band focal plane array includes a millimeter antenna...

Confocal microscopes. (includes related articles) (Cover Story)

R & D;  April 1, 1991 ;     700+ words ......sample are taken because the effective focal plane of the objective lens is very thin...image data from above and below the focal plane are prevented from reaching the detector...specimen by simply raising or lowering the focal plane. At each level, new details are revealed...

Texas Inventors Develop Focal Plane Array Package Assembly

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 31, 2007 ;     272 words ......McCardel of Plano, Texas, have developed a focal plane array package assembly. According to...to, the active detector elements of a focal plane array assembly." An abstract of the...as the active detector pixels of the focal plane, thus eliminating joule heating differences...

Teledyne Secures Air Force Contract for Large Format Infrared Focal Plane...

Wireless News;  July 26, 2007 ;     261 words ......Force Contract for Large Format Infrared Focal Plane Arrays WIRELESS NEWS-July 26, 2007-Teledyne...Force Contract for Large Format Infrared Focal Plane Arrays (C)2007 10Meters - http://www...demonstrated a broad background in developing focal plane arrays for space defense systems ...