Polarimetric imaging enhances the ability to distinguish objects from a bright background by detecting their particular polarization status,which offers another degree of freedom in infrared remote sensing.However,to ...Polarimetric imaging enhances the ability to distinguish objects from a bright background by detecting their particular polarization status,which offers another degree of freedom in infrared remote sensing.However,to scale up by monolithically integrating grating-based polarizers onto a focal plane array(FPA)of infrared detectors,fundamental technical obstacles must be overcome,including reductions of the extinction ratio by the misalignment between the polarizer and the detector,grating line width fluctuations,the line edge roughness,etc.This paper reports the authors’latest achievements in overcoming those problems by solving key technical issues regarding the integration of large-scale polarizers onto the chips of FPAs with individual indium gallium arsenide/indium phosphide(In Ga As/In P)sensors as the basic building blocks.Polarimetric and photovoltaic chips with divisions of the focal plane of 540×4 pixels and 320×256 superpixels have been successfully manufactured.Polarimetric imaging with enhanced contrast has been demonstrated.The progress made in this work has opened up a broad avenue toward industrialization of high quality polarimetric imaging in infrared wavelengths.展开更多
To address deeper understandings about the aero-thermal performance of an integrating infrared suppressor under more realistic situations,a numerical investigation is motivated in the current study,concerning the effe...To address deeper understandings about the aero-thermal performance of an integrating infrared suppressor under more realistic situations,a numerical investigation is motivated in the current study,concerning the effects of forward-flight speed on exhaust plume flow and infrared radiation of the Infrared Suppressor-integrating(IRS-integrating)helicopter,wherein the forward-flight speed is changed from 0 m/s(hover state)to 100 m/s,while both the engine exhaust parameters and the main-rotor operation parameters remains unchanged during different forward-flight velocities.The results show that the interaction between forward-flight flow and downwash flow alters the exhaust plume development and the internal flow inside the IRS-integrating rear fuselage more complicatedly,tightly dependent on the forward-flight speed.Of particular concern is the situation where the forward-flight flow has nearly the same level as the downwash flow,the hot mixing flow could possibly interacts with the helicopter rear fuselage to play a local heating effect.With the increase of forward-flight speed,the ejection coefficient is generally increased and the average exhaust temperature of mixing flow is decreased,leading to a reduction of the infrared radiation intensity of exhaust plume in 3–5 lm band.However,the influence of forward-flight speed on the overall infrared radiation intensity of IRS-integrating helicopter is conjectured not monotonous due to the complicated interaction between forward-flight flow and downwash flow.Under high-speed forward-flight states,the overall infrared radiation intensity of the IRS-integrating helicopter in 3–5 lm band is reduced with the increase of forward-flight speed.With respect to 3–5 lm band,the forward-flight speed has little effect on the infrared radiation in 8–14 lm band.展开更多
基金financially supported by the following projects:Open project of SITP(Project Number:IIMDKFJJ-18-09)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project Number:61927820)+2 种基金The STCSM2019-11-20 funding(Project Number:19142202700)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project Number:NSF No.U1732104)Zhejiang Lab’s International Talent Fund for Young Professionals。
文摘Polarimetric imaging enhances the ability to distinguish objects from a bright background by detecting their particular polarization status,which offers another degree of freedom in infrared remote sensing.However,to scale up by monolithically integrating grating-based polarizers onto a focal plane array(FPA)of infrared detectors,fundamental technical obstacles must be overcome,including reductions of the extinction ratio by the misalignment between the polarizer and the detector,grating line width fluctuations,the line edge roughness,etc.This paper reports the authors’latest achievements in overcoming those problems by solving key technical issues regarding the integration of large-scale polarizers onto the chips of FPAs with individual indium gallium arsenide/indium phosphide(In Ga As/In P)sensors as the basic building blocks.Polarimetric and photovoltaic chips with divisions of the focal plane of 540×4 pixels and 320×256 superpixels have been successfully manufactured.Polarimetric imaging with enhanced contrast has been demonstrated.The progress made in this work has opened up a broad avenue toward industrialization of high quality polarimetric imaging in infrared wavelengths.
基金financial supports for this project from the National Science and Technology Major Project of China(No.J2019-III-0009-0053)。
文摘To address deeper understandings about the aero-thermal performance of an integrating infrared suppressor under more realistic situations,a numerical investigation is motivated in the current study,concerning the effects of forward-flight speed on exhaust plume flow and infrared radiation of the Infrared Suppressor-integrating(IRS-integrating)helicopter,wherein the forward-flight speed is changed from 0 m/s(hover state)to 100 m/s,while both the engine exhaust parameters and the main-rotor operation parameters remains unchanged during different forward-flight velocities.The results show that the interaction between forward-flight flow and downwash flow alters the exhaust plume development and the internal flow inside the IRS-integrating rear fuselage more complicatedly,tightly dependent on the forward-flight speed.Of particular concern is the situation where the forward-flight flow has nearly the same level as the downwash flow,the hot mixing flow could possibly interacts with the helicopter rear fuselage to play a local heating effect.With the increase of forward-flight speed,the ejection coefficient is generally increased and the average exhaust temperature of mixing flow is decreased,leading to a reduction of the infrared radiation intensity of exhaust plume in 3–5 lm band.However,the influence of forward-flight speed on the overall infrared radiation intensity of IRS-integrating helicopter is conjectured not monotonous due to the complicated interaction between forward-flight flow and downwash flow.Under high-speed forward-flight states,the overall infrared radiation intensity of the IRS-integrating helicopter in 3–5 lm band is reduced with the increase of forward-flight speed.With respect to 3–5 lm band,the forward-flight speed has little effect on the infrared radiation in 8–14 lm band.
