Ultra-High Performance Narrowband Detectors for Decluttering Stand-Off Sensing

在现实世界杂乱的环境中，如有毒气体和化学品、逃逸排放物和化学武器制剂等，对有效远程检测、识别、量化和监测超低浓度化学排放的技术有着重要的需求。该计划将提供一种高度干扰、多功能、灵敏、孤立的化学成像器，使用一种新型的超灵敏窄带探测器，比目前任何现有的解决方案都能在探测能力上提高几个数量级。探测器将集成在M-Squared激光(MSL)萤光仪器中，实现主动高光谱成像的全系统演示，这将在前所未有的灵敏度和目标识别方面推动最先进的技术。该系统将提供在有用的距离内实际实施遥感和成像所需的必要进步。该项目团队包括一家专门的红外探测器技术公司(紫晶研究)、一家科学供应商(兰开斯特大学)和一家成熟的系统集成商(M-Squared激光)；一个专门的供应链，配备了提供创新和商业化的能力。

"There is a significant need for technology that is effective in remotely detecting, identifying, quantifying and monitoring chemical emissions at ultra-low concentration levels in real world cluttered environments, such as toxic gases and chemicals, fugitive emissions and chemical weapon agents.This program will deliver a highly disruptive, versatile, sensitive, standoff chemical imager, using a novel ultrasensitive narrowband detector that provides several orders of magnitude improvement in detectivity over any currently available solution.The detectors will be integrated in M-Squared Lasers (MSL) Firefly instrumentation, enabling a full system demonstration of active hyperspectral imaging that will push the state of the art in terms of unprecedented sensitivity and target discrimination. The system will provide the necessary advancement that is required for the practical implementation of remote sensing and imaging at a useful stand-off distance.The project team includes a specialist infrared detector technology company (Amethyst Research), a science provider (Lancaster University), and an established system integrator (M-Squared Lasers); a focussed supply chain that is equipped to deliver both innovation and commercialisation."