From evening drives to navigating a house or a park in the dark, there are so many situations where it'd be handy to slip on a simple pair of night-vision lenses and the world that's beyond human optical perception could be illuminated like never before. This vision could be a reality, with a…
  • Chozo@fedia.io
    47·
    5 months ago

    Instead, TMOS researchers used metasurface-based upconversion technology, which essentially provides an easier pathway for light photons to be processed. The photons travel through a resonant metasurface, where they mingle with a pump beam. The non-local lithium niobate metasurface boosts the energy of the photons, and draws them into the visible light spectrum without the need to convert them to electrons first. It also doesn’t require cryogenic cooling – which reduces ‘noise’ for sharper images in traditional night vision – so can do away with even more of the bulky night-vision goggle mechanics.

    This reads like a Turbo Encabulator script.

      • eronth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        5 months ago

        Depends on your scientific familiarity. Also, part of the turbo encabulator script is that most of the words are not odd, it’s how they’re joined which is odd.