Infrared Transient Sensing

An experiment has been carried out to show that extrinsic silicon injection-mode infrared detectors can be used to simulate the transient response of neurons in biological vision systems. The neural response provides a means of high pass filtering in vision system focal plane parallel processing. Th...

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Published in:Optical Engineering 1988-06, Vol.27 (6), p.276471-276471
Main Authors: Coon, D. D, Karunasiri, R. P. G, Bandara, K. M. S. V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Imaging and optical processing
Optics
Physics
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Summary:An experiment has been carried out to show that extrinsic silicon injection-mode infrared detectors can be used to simulate the transient response of neurons in biological vision systems. The neural response provides a means of high pass filtering in vision system focal plane parallel processing. The high pass filtering emphasizes transients in images. Possible IR imaging applications include surveillance, motion sensing, and tracking. The IR detector output pulses are sufficiently large that amplification is not required. This could facilitate parallel processing in or near the focal plane. The IR transient sensing approach is quantitatively analyzed in terms of a model for the detector and the associated circuitry. Excellent agreement is found between the model and the experimental data.
ISSN:0091-3286
1560-2303
DOI:10.1117/12.7976705