A proposed figure of merit for digital night vision devices

Austin A. Richards; Rudy Benz; Waylin J. Wing

doi:10.1117/12.2625607

27 May 2022 A proposed figure of merit for digital night vision devices

Austin A. Richards, Rudy Benz, Waylin J. Wing

Proceedings Volume 12106, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XXXIII; 121060J (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2625607
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2022, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The authors propose a digital sensor figure of merit (FOM) to describe the performance of digital night vision sensors operating in low-light conditions with a single-number parameter in a manner directly comparative to the FOM of analog image intensifier tubes (IIT). Currently, this first iteration single-valued digital sensor FOM is the product of measured sensor limiting resolution and sensor signal-to-noise ratio using alternative but equivalent techniques to IIT FOM measurements.

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Austin A. Richards, Rudy Benz, and Waylin J. Wing "A proposed figure of merit for digital night vision devices", Proc. SPIE 12106, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XXXIII, 121060J (27 May 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2625607

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