Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 51, Issue 1, 20210454(2022)

Review on athermalized infrared imaging technology based on wavefront coding (Invited)

Zelin Shi1,2, Bin Feng1,2,3、*, and Ping Feng3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Information Processing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
  • 2Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
  • 3School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
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    Received: Oct. 20, 2021

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 8, 2022

    The Author Email: Bin Feng (fengbin@nwpu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20210454

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