A satellite-borne remote sensing device capable of transmitting images at 10 and 20 m resolution from an altitude of 830 km, each sensor covering a ground area of 60 km, by means of a folded catadioptric telescope with a flat object pointing mirror...

A detector array refers to a collection of individual detector elements arranged in a two-dimensional grid or matrix format....

Parallel scanning refers to a method of acquiring data or images simultaneously from multiple sources or in parallel, rather...

A microlens array is a grid-like structure composed of numerous small lenses, typically arranged in a regular pattern. Each...

Photovoltaic (PV) refers to a technology that converts sunlight directly into electricity using semiconductors. The term...

A silicon photodiode is a semiconductor device that converts light into an electrical current. It is a type of photodetector...

Micro-optics refers to the design, fabrication, and application of optical components and systems at a microscale level....

A discipline that combines optics and genetics to enable the use of light to stimulate and control cells in living tissue,...

Line scan refers to a method of capturing images or data by scanning a single line at a time, as opposed to capturing the...

Metasurfaces are two-dimensional arrays of subwavelength-scale artificial structures, often referred to as meta-atoms or...

The Mills Cross telescope is a two dimensional radio telescope in which the two antenna arrays are positioned perpendicular...

An infrared detector is a device that is used to detect and measure infrared radiation, which lies beyond the visible...

Meta-optics, also known as metasurface optics or flat optics, is a branch of optics that involves the design, fabrication,...

An X-Y electrically addressable series of arrays with individual electron emitters bombarding a phosphor-coated transparent...

Technique for measuring the volume bulk of materials as they move along a conveyor with an accuracy of better than 1...

A Dammann grating is a type of diffractive optical element (DOE) used to create an array of equally spaced,...

An InGaAs photodiode refers to a photodetector device that is constructed using a semiconductor material composed of a...

A photon-counting instrument for use in both space-borne and ground-based photometric and spectroscopic instrumentation....

A method of scanning in which a frame transfer device produces a continuous video image of a moving object by means of a...