Max-Viz and FLIR Systems, among other manufacturers, offer uncooled microbolometer IR sensors that are very sensitive to long-wave IR radiation, thus making them excellent detectors of terrain imagery ...

Cheaper, larger and better infrared detectors grown on silicon wafers could give more scientists access to infrared astronomy and further spur the hunt for exoplanets and the study of the universe’s ...

Polarization, as a primary physical quantity of light, is of great interest to almost all optical sciences and technologies. Along with linear polarization detection, circular polarization (or light ...