Chris Slinger

TL;DR: It is shown that adaptive CAI has several potential advantages over more traditional optical systems for some applications in these wavebands, and the results of some of the tradeoffs in optical performance are presented, using radiometric calculations to illustrate the consequences in a mid-infrared application.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the application of CAI to the visible and IR bands, and present an analysis of these benefits and limitations, along with a description of a novel micro optical electro-mechanical (MOEMS) microshutter technology for use in thermal band infrared CAI systems.

TL;DR: This work reports on work to develop a novel, reconfigurable mask based on micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS) technology employing interference effects to modulate incident light in the mid-IR band (3-5μm).

TL;DR: System size, weight and cost calculations indicate that the coded aperture approach, employing novel photonic MOEMS micro-shutter architectures, has significant merits for a given level of performance in the MWIR when compared to more conventional imaging approaches.

TL;DR: Comparisons show that CA based systems can provide significant benefits to the user in some applications and opens up possibilities of increasing the system design trade-space thereby giving the system designer greater degrees of freedom to optimise the system.