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Microscanning Setup for Focal Plane Arrays

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Applications of Photonic Technology

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Infrared focal plane arrays (FPA) are becoming widely used in the field of thermal imaging. As compared to older 1-detector scanning systems, these sensors showed tremendous improvement. However, FPAs have a major drawback over scanning systems as, for a given instantaneous field of view (IFOV), they can only reproduce half the frequencies scanning systems do. This is due to the Nyquist theorem which stipulates that at least two samples must be taken for each cycle1 in the image.

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  1. Electro-optics Division, Defence Research Establishment Valcartier, 2459, Pie XI Blvd., North, P.O. Box 8800, Courcelette, Quebec, Canada, G0A 1R0

    Jean Fortin, Paul Chevrette & Robert Plante

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  1. A.U.G. Signals Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    George A. Lampropoulos

  2. National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Jacek Chrostowski

  3. Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto, Downsview, Ontario, Canada

    Raymond M. Measures

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Fortin, J., Chevrette, P., Plante, R. (1995). Microscanning Setup for Focal Plane Arrays. In: Lampropoulos, G.A., Chrostowski, J., Measures, R.M. (eds) Applications of Photonic Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9247-8_47

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