Europe’s flagship ground-based astronomical facility, the ESO VLT, has been equipped with a new ‘eye’ to study the Universe. Working in the near-infrared, the new instrument – dubbed HAWK-I – covers ...

Seeing through smog and fog. Mapping out a person's blood vessels while monitoring heart rate at the same time--without touching the person's skin. Seeing through silicon wafers to inspect the quality ...

Scientists at the Center for Quantum Devices (CQD) in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University have demonstrated for the first time a high-performance infrared imager, based on a ...

A project at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has developed a novel shortwave infrared (SWIR) imaging platform that could be valuable in several diverse applications. SWIR radiation, ...

L-3 WESCAM has demonstrated its MX-25 electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) imaging system for the Army, the company said Feb. 21. The Burlington, Ontario-based imaging systems provider demonstrated the MX ...

Snake-inspired thermal vision is moving from the lab toward devices that look a lot like everyday cameras and phones. By mimicking how vipers sense heat and fusing that idea with standard silicon ...

The human eye can only detect wavelengths in the visible light range, but a new imaging system will let us "see" infrared ...

Three images of Jupiter show the gas giant in three different types of light — infrared, visible, and ultraviolet. The image on the left was taken in infrared by the Near-InfraRed Imager (NIRI) ...

Thermal imaging cameras, or infrared cameras, are unlike the cameras found in your smartphone. A typical camera observes the wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum that bounce off objects and ...

An infrared imager developed by engineers could be used to see through smog and fog; easily locate blood vessels on a patient; and see through silicon wafers to inspect the quality of electronic ...