Variable waveband infrared imager

Hunter, Scott R.

Variable waveband infrared imager

Patent · 11 June 2013

OSTI ID:1084242

Hunter, Scott R.

A waveband imager includes an imaging pixel that utilizes photon tunneling with a thermally actuated bimorph structure to convert infrared radiation to visible radiation. Infrared radiation passes through a transparent substrate and is absorbed by a bimorph structure formed with a pixel plate. The absorption generates heat which deflects the bimorph structure and pixel plate towards the substrate and into an evanescent electric field generated by light propagating through the substrate. Penetration of the bimorph structure and pixel plate into the evanescent electric field allows a portion of the visible wavelengths propagating through the substrate to tunnel through the substrate, bimorph structure, and/or pixel plate as visible radiation that is proportional to the intensity of the incident infrared radiation. This converted visible radiation may be superimposed over visible wavelengths passed through the imaging pixel.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Assignee:: UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN)

Patent Number(s):: 8,461,529

Application Number:: 12/889,149

OSTI ID:: 1084242

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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