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New all-optical approach to revolutionise night vision technology
TMOS researchers from the Australian National University demonstrate enhanced infrared vision non-linear upconversion technology using a non-local lithium niobate metasurface, making significant progress in their journey to deliver a new approach to night vision technology.
Night vision devices have primarily been used by the military, hunting enthusiasts willing to lug around multipurpose binoculars, or photographers happy to carry around heavy lenses. Lead author Laura Valencia Molina says, “People have said that high efficiency up-conversion of infrared to visible is impossible because of the amount of information not collected due to the angular loss that is inherent in non-local metasurfaces. Laura Valencia Molina, Rocio Camacho Morales, Jihua Zhang, Roland Schiek, Isabelle Staude, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Dragomir N. Neshev
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