Infrared technology XIX

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:5353007

Andresen, B; Shepherd, F D ^[1]

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1. eds.

This conference provided a forum for information exchange and discussions between researchers within the various IR technologies and engineers active in IR system developments. Participants reported advances in all the major technologies and discussed the use of hybrid refractive/diffractive optical systems; the inclusion of diffractive elements will lead to a reduction in system volume, weight, and cost. Measured and predicted performances of four classes of focal-plane detector arrays were compared, including superconducting and room-temperature bolometers as well as superconducting and semiconductor quantum detectors. Reports were heard on lightweight detector coolers requiring low input power and having operating lifetimes of about 5,000 hours and on processing algorithms for reducing the false alarm rate in IR search systems. Signal processing on and off the focal plane was a critical technology. Separate abstracts were prepared for 50 papers in this conference.

• OSTI ID: 5353007
• Report Number(s): CONF-930722-; ISBN: 0-8194-1269-4
• Resource Relation: Conference: Annual meeting of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), San Diego, CA (United States), 11-16 Jul 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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