Current and future trends in military night vision applications

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 342, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 183-192

  Ratches, James A ^a  

^a NIGHT VISION AND ELECTRONIC SENSORS DIRECTORATE   (United States)

Author keywords

ATR; Cooled and uncooled thermal imaging; Electro optics; Lasers; Low light level imaging

Indexed keywords

ALL SOLID STATE; COOLED AND UNCOOLED THERMAL IMAGING; CURRENT SYSTEM; ELECTRO-OPTICS; EYE-SAFE LASERS; FUTURE TRENDS; IR DETECTOR; LOW LIGHT LEVEL; LOW LIGHT LEVEL IMAGING; MERCURY CADMIUM TELLURIDE; MILITARY NIGHT VISION; NEW SYSTEM; NIGHT VISION; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; SILICON SUBSTRATES; TARGET RECOGNITION; TV CAMERA; UNCOOLED THERMAL IMAGING;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; LIGHT; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; SENSORS; SILICON DETECTORS; THIN FILMS; VISION;

MILITARY APPLICATIONS;

EID: 70349664892     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150190600946351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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