{"id":4502,"date":"2013-03-04T19:51:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zennioptical.com\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2024-12-10T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T07:31:09","slug":"turn-any-pair-of-glasses-into-night-vision-goggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/turn-any-pair-of-glasses-into-night-vision-goggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Any Pair of Glasses Into Night Vision Goggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/night-vision.png\" aria-label=\"Visit blog wp content uploads 2012 12 night vision.png page\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5237\" title=\"night-vision\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/night-vision.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a difficult time seeing properly at night? A team at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel, is developing a technology that could turn any pair of glasses into night vision spectacles.<\/p>\n<p>BGU\u2019s professor Gabby Sarusi is leading the development team to create this ultra-thin \u201csmart-layer,\u201d which is reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Health\/Article.aspx?ID=296072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Visit The Jerusalem Post Page (opens in new tab)\"><em>The Jerusalem Post<\/em><\/a> to be only \u201cone-micron thick.\u201d This development has caught the eye of many institutions, including the Israel National Nanotechnology Institute, as current night vision technology tends to be bulky and expensive. According to Sarusi, the glasses will weigh less than 50 grams and will only require a 20-volt battery to function through the night. Additionally, unlike night vision goggles, which only amplify visible light, the multiple layers of nanocolloid materials will absorb both existing and invisible rays of light, allowing the nanophotonics film to capture these rays and convert them into visible light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the vastly improved optics and ergonomics of an extremely thin lens,\u201d Sarusi added, \u201cthe technology will be far less expensive, costing hundreds versus thousands of dollars per pair of night vision goggles.\u201d While the development could be applied to numerous fields, its most applicable sector is security. Sarusi previously worked for Elop (which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elbitsystems.com\/elbitmain\/elop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Visit merged Page (opens in new tab)\">merged<\/a> in 2010 with Elbit Systems to become the largest electro-optics company outside of the US), developing night imaging and thermal imaging sensors.<\/p>\n<p>While still in development, the team was recently awarded a $6.5 million grant from the Israel National Nanotechnology Initiative. Sarusi stated the team\u2019s success is due to the technology\u2019s ability to work with whatever light is available to it. \u201cThe device we will develop is a photons-starving device where every photon counts and the conversion efficiency from infrared photon to visible photon is the crucial issue. Unlike other groups in the world that are working in this field, we will implement the most advanced research in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eye-facts"],"acf":[],"contentshake_article_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96077,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions\/96077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}