Thin infrared imaging systems through multichannel sampling

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Shankar, Mohan ^a   Willett, Rebecca ^a   Pitsianis, Nikos ^a   Schulz, Timothy ^b   Gibbons, Robert ^c   Te Kolste, Robert ^d   Carriere, James ^d   Chen, Caihua ^e   Prather, Dennis ^e   Brady, David ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^d Tessera Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; LENSES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; LENSLET ARRAY; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; MULTI-CHANNEL SAMPLINGS; NONLINEAR INTERPOLATION; SUPER-RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

EID: 48949105122     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.0000B1     Document Type: Article

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