2 results about "Passive imaging" patented technology

This invention discloses a terahertz receiver and a focal plane camera device based on a variable capacitor. The receiver includes a connected zigzag inductor and interdigitated capacitors; each finger of the interdigitated capacitor is composed of closely arranged double-cross-shaped repeating units, enabling it to efficiently absorb terahertz waves without the need for an additional absorber. Terahertz radiation changes the dielectric constant of the dielectric, causing changes in capacitance and resonant frequency; detection is achieved by detecting these changes. The focal plane camera device includes an array of the aforementioned receivers. Each receiver is coupled to a zigzag-shaped center feed line via a coupling feed line, and each unit has a different resonant frequency, achieving frequency division multiplexing readout. This invention combines absorption and resonance functions into one, greatly simplifying the structure, achieving high absorption efficiency, possessing dual polarization and intrinsic frequency division multiplexing capabilities, and easily expanding into large arrays. It can be widely applied in fields such as high-sensitivity terahertz passive imaging and spectral analysis.

This invention discloses a dispersion compensation method and system for broadband imaging using a passive liquid crystal optical phased array. Dispersion parameters are obtained by calibrating the dispersion length and overall translation at different orders using a point source. The field of view is electrically deflected at different grating orders to acquire passive observation images. The dispersion process during diffraction is modeled, and an imaging matrix is ​​constructed based on a forward model. Compressed sensing reconstruction is solved using sparse priors as regularization terms to directly reconstruct a high-dimensional data cube of the entire field of view. After reconstruction, the entire field of view scene reconstruction result is directly projected downwards to obtain the reconstruction result of the scene during a scanning process. Field clipping is performed on the multi-order reconstruction results to obtain imaging results of different fields of view at different scanning angles. This invention significantly suppresses dispersion blurring along the deflection direction without changing the physical aperture and pixels of the passive liquid crystal optical phased array, improving the clarity and resolution of passive imaging. It is applicable to broadband passive scenes such as 380–760 nm visible / near-infrared.