{"id":190550,"date":"2024-06-03T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-all-optical-approach-could-miniaturize-night-vision-technology"},"modified":"2024-06-03T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:26:30","slug":"new-all-optical-approach-could-miniaturize-night-vision-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-all-optical-approach-could-miniaturize-night-vision-technology","title":{"rendered":"New all-optical approach could miniaturize night vision technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-all-optical-approach-could-miniaturize-night-vision-technology3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miniaturizing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/night+vision\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">night vision<\/a> could therefore lead to widespread adoption. Creating night vision filters that weigh less than a gram and can sit as a film across a pair of traditional spectacles opens up new, everyday applications.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer night vision glasses that allow the user to see the visible and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/infrared+spectrum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrared spectrum<\/a> at the same time could result in safer driving in the dark, safer nighttime walks, and less hassle working in low-light conditions that currently require bulky and often uncomfortable headlamps.<\/p>\n<p>In research <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/adma.202402777\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Advanced Materials<\/i>, TMOS researchers from the Australian National University demonstrate enhanced infrared vision non-linear upconversion technology using a non-local lithium niobate metasurface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miniaturizing night vision could therefore lead to widespread adoption. Creating night vision filters that weigh less than a gram and can sit as a film across a pair of traditional spectacles opens up new, everyday applications. Consumer night vision glasses that allow the user to see the visible and infrared spectrum at the same time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}