Field Guide to Infrared Systems, Detectors, and FPAs

Field Guide to Infrared Systems, Detectors, and FPAs
Author: Arnold Daniels
Publisher: SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre: Focal planes
ISBN: 9781510618640

"Field Guide to Infrared Systems, Detectors, and FPAs, Third Edition is devoted to fundamental background issues for optical detection processes. It compares the characteristics of cooled and uncooled detectors with an emphasis on spectral and blackbody responsivity, detectivity, as well as the noise mechanisms related to optical detection. It introduces the concepts of barrier infrared detector technologies, and encompasses the capabilities and challenges of third-generation infrared focal plane arrays as well as the advantages of using dual-band technology. The book combines numerous engineering disciplines necessary for the development of an infrared system. It considers the development of search infrared systems and specifies the main descriptors used to characterize thermal imaging systems. Furthermore, this guide clarifies, identifies, and evaluates the engineering tradeoffs in the design of an infrared system"--

Field Guide to Infrared Optical Materials

Field Guide to Infrared Optical Materials
Author: Alan Symmons
Publisher: SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Infrared equipment
ISBN: 9781510640658

"Today's SWIR, MWIR, LWIR and multispectral technologies cover a wide range of commercial and military applications and continue to rapidly expand in almost every aspect of our lives. This Field Guide focuses on the most common infrared crystals and glasses used in these systems, from their manufacturing methods through modern optical fabrication technologies to the end-use applications. Detailed optical, crystallographic, mechanical, chemical, and thermal properties of the most popular infrared materials are reviewed in detail along with process flows and relative comparisons. The Field Guide to Infrared Optical Materials provides a concise and convenient resource for those interested in the materials used in infrared optical systems"--

Optical Design Fundamentals for Infrared Systems

Optical Design Fundamentals for Infrared Systems
Author: Max J. Riedl
Publisher: SPIE Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2001
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780819440518

The practical, popular 1995 tutorial has been thoroughly revised and updated, reflecting developments in technology and applications during the past decade. New chapters address wave aberrations, thermal effects, design examples, and diamond turning.

Field Guide to Infrared Optics, Materials, and Radiometry

Field Guide to Infrared Optics, Materials, and Radiometry
Author: Arnold Daniels
Publisher: SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre: Infrared detectors
ISBN: 9781510618602

"Field Guide to Infrared Optics, Materials, and Radiometry covers all aspects of IR optics, including monochromatic and chromatic optical aberrations as well as important concepts such as depth of focus, depth of field, hyperfocal distance, warm shields, aspheric surfaces, and kinoforms. It also provides a comprehensive introduction to the optical, mechanical, and thermal properties of infrared materials as well as the essentials of radiometry and sources necessary for the quantitative understanding of infrared signatures and flux transfer, spectral atmospheric transmittance, and path radiance"--

Field Guide to Infrared Systems

Field Guide to Infrared Systems
Author: Arnold Daniels
Publisher: Society of Photo Optical
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2007
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780819463616

This Field Guide is written to clarify and summarize the theoretical principles of infrared technology. It describes the basic elements involving image formation and image quality, radiometry and flux transfer, and explains the figures of merit involving detector performance. It considers the development of search infrared systems, and specifies the main descriptors used to characterize thermal imaging systems. Furthermore, this guide clarifies, identifies, and evaluates the engineering tradeoffs in the design of an infrared system.

Field Guide to Lens Design

Field Guide to Lens Design
Author: Julie L. Bentley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Lenses
ISBN: 9780819491640

The process of designing lenses is both an art and a science. While advances in the field over the past two centuries have done much to transform it from the former category to the latter, much of the lens design process remains encapsulated in the experience and knowledge of industry veterans. This SPIE Field Guide provides a working reference for practicing physicists, engineers, and scientists for deciphering the nuances of basic lens design.

Fundamentals of Infrared Detector Materials

Fundamentals of Infrared Detector Materials
Author: Michael A. Kinch
Publisher: SPIE Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2007
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780819467317

The choice of available infrared (IR) detectors for insertion into modern IR systems is both large and confusing. The purpose of this volume is to provide a technical database from which rational IR detector selection criteria evolve, and thus clarify the options open to the modern IR system designer. Emphasis concentrates mainly on high-performance IR systems operating in a tactical environment, although there also is discussion of both strategic environments and low- to medium-performance system requirements.

Field Guide to Astronomical Instrumentation

Field Guide to Astronomical Instrumentation
Author: Christoph U. Keller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Astronomical instruments
ISBN: 9781628411775

A concise, organised reference that explains the functions and configurations of astronomical instrumentation. It provides an overview of aspects of astronomical instrumentation from principles of general optics and optical design to optical manufacturing and systems engineering.

Infrared System Engineering

Infrared System Engineering
Author: Richard D. Hudson
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1969-01-15
Genre: Science
ISBN:

This classic opens with a history of the development of the infrared portion of the spectrum, probes the system engineering process, and then examines the characteristics of the successful system engineer. The next eleven chapters delve deeply into the elements of infrared technology. Chapter 13 explains the functional relationships between the various system elements and the effects of their interactions when assembled into a system. In Chapter 14 the reader is invited to watch the development of an infrared search system for commercial jet transports. Part II contains an in-depth treatment of the applications of infrared techniques to the solution of military, industrial, medical, and scientific problems. It contains nearly 1400 annotated references to the infrared literature of the world. The annotations summarize the content, describe the hardware, details its performance and examine the significant results. The references are carefully arranged, extensively indexed, and does not contain citations to the classified or report literature, a feature appreciated by most readers. For those readers having the necessary credentials, Appendix 4 is a guide to the unpublished and classified literature of the infrared.

Testing and Evaluation of Infrared Imaging Systems

Testing and Evaluation of Infrared Imaging Systems
Author: Gerald C. Holst
Publisher: SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1998
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

This volume describes the characterization of all infrared imaging systems, infrared search and track systems, IRST, machine vision systems, and line scanners.