ATI's Modern Infrared Sensor Technology course

Summary: This is a comprehensive 3-day course designed for engineers, managers, and marketers of defense industries and small businesses who wish to enhance their understanding of infrared (IR) technology, and improve their skills in designing IR sensing system, or advocating for IR technology development. The practical aspect of modern IR physics and design principles are given in simple terms. Different IR materials, detectors and focal plane arrays (FPAs) will be presented with comparisons of the strong and weak points of each material for different applications. IR for space applications will be emphasized. Examples of IR sensors for ballistic missile defense kill vehicles and surveillance systems will be given. Some knowledge of semiconductor electronics will be helpful, but not required. Instructor: Dr. Meimei Z Tidrow has over ten years experience in IR sensor technology development, including IR material research, detector design and modeling, device processing, sensor integration and system applications. She is well recognized in the IR field and has made important contributions to the development of the most advanced IR sensors. She serves on many international advisory and program committees. She has given over forty invited talks, seminars and colloquiums in the IR technology area. She has published over 90 journal and conference publications. Dr. Tidrow is currently the program manager for the Advanced Passive EO/IR Program at the Advanced Systems of Missile Defense Agency. What you will learn: Why is IR so important to space and missile defense and what is the latest? How IR detectors work, and simple design rules. How to compare different IR sensors and decide which one to use. How space IR sensors are different from terrestrial IR sensors. What IR sensors are being used in current missile defense systems. What kind of IR sensors are expected for future missile defense system upgrades. Focus Sentence: Learn the state-of-the-art IR technology and stay ahead of the missile defense game! Course Outline: Introduction: IR in the electromagnetic spectrum and IR signatures. The importance of IR technology to commercial markets, military systems and missile defense. FLIR, scanning and staring IR systems. Infrared fundamentals: What is blackbody radiation, how does the temperature of a target relate to its radiation wavelength? What is a blackbody, grey-body, and a non-grey-body? Infrared detection fundamentals: What is a thermal detector? What is a photon detector? How do they work? What are the figures of merit of IR detectors? Why some detectors are cooled while others are room temperature (called uncooled)? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each detection mechanism? Infrared detectors: What IR materials are used mostly in current IR systems? How do HgCdTe and InSb detectors work? How does quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP) work? How does the extrinsic silicon detector work? How does the IR bolometer work? How does the ferroelectric detector work? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each material and each detector? How to design an IR detector? Infrared FPAs: How are IR FPAs manufactured? What are the figures-of-the merit of IR FPAs? What is the state-of-the art of IR FPAs? Multi-color IR FPAs: What are multi-color IR FPAs? How to design multi-color IR FPAs? How important are temporal and spatial co-registration? What IR materials are suitable for multi-color FPAs? What is the state-of-the-art? What are the advantages? How many colors are enough? Infrared systems: Critical sensing components, IR FPA chip assembly, ROIC, cryocoolers, Optics, and processing electronics. Examples of current IR systems for commercial and military systems. Infrared systems for missile defense: What is latest in IR sensing technology? IR sensors and ballistic missile defense. Sensors to be expected in the future. Examples: Ground-based midcourse (GMD), Aegis BMD, Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI), Airborne Laser (ABL), THAAD, STSS. Infrared systems for space: What is the atmosphere made of? How does the atmosphere affect IR sensors? What is the challenge of IR in space? How do IR sensors affect satellite orbit design? What happens when looking up, or looking down? How to eliminate earth shine? Why current IR systems have difficulty meeting requirements for space. Future trend of new IR materials: What are the cutting edge IR technologies? Sb based strained-layer superlattice, revived Pb-salt, nano technology. Tuition: Tuition for this three-day course is $1290 per person at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email to ati@ATIcourses.com. Register Now Without Obligation