The DARPA OpTIm program: infrared imaging at the quantum limits

Mukund Vengalattore

doi:10.1117/12.3013858

8 June 2024 The DARPA OpTIm program: infrared imaging at the quantum limits

Mukund Vengalattore

Proceedings Volume PC13030, Image Sensing Technologies: Materials, Devices, Systems, and Applications XI; PC130300D (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3013858
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2024, National Harbor, Maryland, United States

Abstract

The DARPA Optomechanical Thermal Imaging (OpTIm) program seeks to develop a novel modality of low-SWaP quantum-limited infrared detection. Building upon proof-of-concept studies and detailed noise analyses, the OpTIm device concept amalgamates high performance optomechanical sensors, quantum-limited all-optical readout techniques, and spectrally resolved metamaterial-based IR absorbers to realize several order-of-magnitude improvements in both IR sensitivity and detection speed. I will give a brief overview of the OpTIm program concept, the over-arching goals of this program, and a summary of innovations that have resulted from the program thus far. I will also describe the numerous technological applications and opportunities that are engendered by the novel capabilities of OpTIm imaging systems.

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Mukund Vengalattore "The DARPA OpTIm program: infrared imaging at the quantum limits", Proc. SPIE PC13030, Image Sensing Technologies: Materials, Devices, Systems, and Applications XI, PC130300D (8 June 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3013858

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