A Single Sensor Based Multispectral Imaging Camera using a Narrow Spectral Band Colour Mosaic Integrated on the Monochrome CMOS Image Sensor

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Title: A Single Sensor Based Multispectral Imaging Camera using a Narrow Spectral Band Colour Mosaic Integrated on the Monochrome CMOS Image Sensor
Authors: He, Xin, Liu, Yajing, Ganesan, Kumar, Ahnood, Arman, Beckett, Paul, Eftekhari, Fatima, Smith, Dan, Uddin, MD Hemayet, Skafidas, Efstratios, Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai, Unnithan, Ranjith Rajasekharan
Source: APL Photonics 2020
Publication Year: 2020
Collection: Physics (Other)
Subject Terms: Physics - Optics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing
More Details: A multispectral image camera captures image data within specific wavelength ranges in narrow wavelength bands across the electromagnetic spectrum. Images from a multispectral camera can extract additional information that the human eye or a normal camera fails to capture and thus may have important applications in precision agriculture, forestry, medicine and object identification. Conventional multispectral cameras are made up of multiple image sensors each fitted with a narrow passband wavelength filter and optics, which makes them heavy, bulky, power hungry and very expensive. The multiple optics also create image co-registration problem. Here, we demonstrate a single sensor based three band multispectral camera using a narrow spectral band RGB colour mosaic in a Bayer pattern integrated on a monochrome CMOS sensor. The narrow band colour mosaic is made of a hybrid combination of plasmonic colour filters and heterostructured dielectric multilayer. The demonstrated camera technology has reduced cost, weight, size and power by almost n times (where n is the number of bands) compared to a conventional multispectral camera.
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01630
Accession Number: edsarx.2012.01630
Database: arXiv
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