Seeing Photons
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Seeing Photons

Progress and Limits of Visible and Infrared Sensor Arrays

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Seeing Photons

Progress and Limits of Visible and Infrared Sensor Arrays

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About this book

The Department of Defense recently highlighted intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities as a top priority for U.S. warfighters. Contributions provided by ISR assets in the operational theaters in Iraq and Afghanistan have been widely documented in press reporting. While the United States continues to increase investments in ISR capabilities, other nations not friendly to the United States will continue to seek countermeasures to U.S. capabilities.The Technology Warning Division of the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) Defense Warning Office (DWO) has the critical responsibility, in collaborations with other components of the intelligence community (IC), for providing U.S. policymakers insight into technological developments that may impact future U.S. warfighting capabilities.To this end, the IC requested that the National Research Council (NRC) investigate and report on key visible and infrared detector technologies, with potential military utility, that are likely to be developed in the next 10-15 years. This study is the eighth in a series sponsored by the DWO and executed under the auspices of the NRC TIGER (Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate, and Review) Standing Committee.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
  3. COMMITTEE ON DEVELOPMENTS IN DETECTOR TECHNOLOGIES
  4. STANDING COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT—GAUGE, EVALUATE, AND REVIEW
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgment of Reviewers
  7. Contents
  8. Acronyms
  9. Summary
  10. 1 National Security Context of Detector Technologies
  11. 2 Fundamentals of Ultraviolet, Visible, and Infrared Detectors
  12. 3 Key Current Technologies and Evolutionary Developments
  13. 4 Emerging Technologies with Potentially Significant Impacts
  14. 5 The Global Landscape of Detector Technologies
  15. Appendixes