{"id":197808,"date":"2024-10-17T03:25:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/silicon-metasurfaces-unlock-broad-spectrum-infrared-imaging"},"modified":"2024-10-17T03:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:25:52","slug":"silicon-metasurfaces-unlock-broad-spectrum-infrared-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/silicon-metasurfaces-unlock-broad-spectrum-infrared-imaging","title":{"rendered":"Silicon metasurfaces unlock broad-spectrum infrared imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silicon-metasurfaces-unlock-broad-spectrum-infrared-imaging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infrared+cameras\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrared cameras<\/a> are valuable tools for enhanced vision, food and plant quality control, security, etc, today\u2019s cameras often face significant drawbacks. For instance, they are bulky and power-hungry, requiring cooling systems that limit their functionalities.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, current semiconductor-based technology used in the cameras only captures a narrow band of the infrared spectrum based on the absorption band of the semiconductor detector. This means that every application would need a separate camera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the complications of today\u2019s bulky, power-hungry and expensive infrared imaging technology, we are unlikely to have an infrared camera at home. However, nonlinear frequency conversion, a process that manipulates and translates electromagnetic signals across various frequency regimes, holds a massive potential to revolutionize infrared detection technology,\u201d said Prof Mohsen Ramhami, the leader of Advanced Optics and Photonics Lab, and a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While infrared cameras are valuable tools for enhanced vision, food and plant quality control, security, etc, today\u2019s cameras often face significant drawbacks. For instance, they are bulky and power-hungry, requiring cooling systems that limit their functionalities. More importantly, current semiconductor-based technology used in the cameras only captures a narrow band of the infrared spectrum based [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197808","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}