{"id":3928907,"date":"2026-11-13T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/optical-system-maps-multiple-infrared-fields-onto-one-small-detector\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T15:00:19","slug":"optical-system-maps-multiple-infrared-fields-onto-one-small-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/optical-system-maps-multiple-infrared-fields-onto-one-small-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"Optical system maps multiple infrared fields onto one small detector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Researchers from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an optical system that focuses light from several subfields onto a single small-format detector. By analyzing field-dependent spot shapes, the system identifies which subfield an isolated infrared target comes from. In sequence-level tests, it identified the correct field in about 89% of cases. The study is published in Optics and Laser Technology.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-optical-multiple-infrared-fields-small.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an optical system that focuses light from several subfields onto a single small-format detector. By analyzing field-dependent spot shapes, the system identifies which subfield an isolated infrared target comes from. In sequence-level tests, it identified the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}