Princeton Infrared Technologies, Inc. (PIRT) announces a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the Office of The Secretary of Defense to fund the development of a Megapixel high-resolution seeker with extended wavelength detection capability covering the entire SWIR range.
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Princeton Infrared Technologies, Inc. are specialists in indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) imaging technology and affordable shortwave-infrared (SWIR) line scan cameras, visible-SWIR science cameras, and 1- and 2-D imaging arrays.
The Megapixel high-resolution seeker camera will have high pixel operability with a digital output greater than industry standard frame rates at full resolution.
The imager will be manufactured on InP substrates using the InGaAs/GaAsSb system allowing for low cost and the ability to utilize modern III-V semiconductor processing.
Additionally, the imager will be manufactured and hybridized at wafer scale to minimize cost.
This research has huge benefits for both the defense and commercial markets. This research will lead to wide spectral width imagers in the SWIR which will provide for various hyperspectral imaging opportunities.
Martin H Ettenberg, Ph.D., President, Princeton Infrared Technologies Inc.
Martin Ettenberg goes on to say: "We are also excited to be leveraging new technology to bring much lower cost imagers to the market through wafer scale hybridization. These new imagers will require significantly less cooling allowing reduced system size, weight, power and cost which is important to both our military and commercial customers.”
To learn more about the line of affordable SWIR linear arrays and cameras, visit: www.princetonirtech.com or call 1-609-917-3380.