Military Mid IR Sensors Market Shares and Forecasts Report 2023-2029

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Jun 26, 2023, 05:30 ET

DUBLIN, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Military Mid IR Sensors Market Shares and Forecasts, 2023-2029" report from Wintergreen Research, Inc has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The decrease in the size of units from bench-size devices to portable units makes them more useful across the board in every industry. Worldwide military mid IR sensor markets are poised to continue to achieve significant growth with the implementation of smartphone apps. autonomous vehicles and drones create demand for more and more sensors. Everything needs a sensor to be connected to the Internet and available to smartphone apps.

Mid IR sensors can measure the chemical composition of materials and gas. The efficiency is unmatched by any other technology; cost is increasingly competitive. Mid IR is extending use beyond military applications to commercial systems, including the Internet of Things where sensors become part of network systems.

Mid IR sensors are the base of the military light, image, and gas sensor control systems. They form the building blocks for all different types of imaging and controls. Drones, robots, welding robots, machines, cameras, buildings, fire departments, guns, flight control, the military, border patrol, enforcement, healthcare, asthma treatment, and virtually all parts of the military increasingly use mid IR sensors.

The Internet of Things (IoT) does not work without sensors, mid IR sensors provide a significant aspect of modern visualization and sensing. Drones use mid IR sensors for cameras and navigation. Robots use mid IR cameras for navigation. Autonomous military vehicles and tanks use mid IR cameras for navigation. The intelligence community has used this mid IR sensor technology for a long time and the technology is now gaining further traction.

Mid IR sensors can measure the chemical composition of materials and gas. Thanker efficiency is unmatched by any other technology; cost is increasingly competitive. Mid IR has extended use to all military applications, and mid ir sensors have become part of network systems.

Mid-IR QCL systems have achieved price performance levels that are increasingly attractive. Vendors bring sensing capabilities to a broad range of applications, including spectroscopic and bio-medical imaging; materials characterization; standoff explosive detection; microscopy; and non-destructive testing. Spectroscopy and imaging measurements are easier, faster, and more cost-effective leveraging advances in mid IR sensing.

Mid-infrared sensors and imaging applications depend on quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology. Daylight Solutions quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology has been delivered to more systems for more customers in more applications than all other QCLbased solutions combined. Advances in QC laser technology and spectrometer hardware are combined with spectroscopic techniques. Intra pulse spectroscopy and similar techniques provide a major step change in sensitivity, speed of operation, fingerprinting capability, size, and cost. They offer a major improvement in methods of gas detection. Recent advances in spectrometer hardware relate to QC gas sensors. Advances exploit recent technological advances including miniaturized integrated electronic systems, plug and play interfaces, and micro optics. These will progressively replace unwieldy, fragile, and expensive instrumentation. The lasing wavelength for QCLs is determined by the choice of semiconductor material. By adjusting the physical thickness of the semiconductor layers new functionality is achieved. This removes the material barriers associated with conventional semiconductor laser technology.

An infrared spectroscopic laser source has no need for cryogenic cooling, provides high output powers, has large spectral coverage, provides excellent spectral quality, and has good tunability. The removal of the noise floor provides a competitive advantage because it can be implemented without the need for complex fringe removal techniques. It can be done without expensive optical isolators. The feature that allows manageable removal of the noise floor enables the laboratory performance of technology to be commercialized. Mid-IR analyzers in process control are expected to save trillions of Btus annually in the petrochemical sector. Process control and environmental monitoring potential applications are evolving for this technology.

Examples of mid IR applications follow:

Combustion emissions analysis
Fugitive emissions control
Contraband detection
Improved safety conditions for plant workers
On-site detection of chemicals

Military medical applications include human breath monitoring, glucose sensing, cancer detection and diagnostics, eye surgery, and environmental health monitoring. Medical monitoring utilizes trace detection of benzene, toluene, or xylene. Medical applications account for a growing mid-IR laser military market. The medical area is evolving in both diagnostics and treatment. Improved diagnostics are made possible through photonic technologies. Mid IR sensors deliver a better understanding of the disease: Optical molecular imaging is anticipated to be significant.

Military mid IR markets at $34.19 billion in 2022 are anticipated to reach $130 billion by 2029 as price performance increases and unit costs decrease from $3,000 per unit to $900 per high-end unit. $100 per mid-range sensor has dropped to $20. $8 has dropped to $.6 per unit providing price points that make the sensors affordable. or less per unit on average drive further interest from commercial buyers. The decrease in the size of units from bench-size devices to portable units makes them more useful across the board in every industry.

Key Topics Covered:

MILITARY MID IR SENSOR MARKET DESCRIPTION AND MARKET DYNAMICS
MILITARY MID IR SENSORS MARKET SHARES AND MARKET FORECASTS
MILITARY MID IR SENSORS PRODUCT DESCRIPTION FLIR MILITARY MID IR SENSORS AND TECHNOLOGY
MILITARY MID IR SENSOR TECHNOLOGY
MILITARY MID INFRARED (IR) SENSORS COMPANY PROFILES

A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes

Acuity Brands Inc.
AdTech Optics
Advanced Photonix
Aerocrine
Agiltron
Airbus
Airsense Technology
ALTechnologies
Amphenol
Axis Communications
BAE
Block Engineering
Boeing Bosch Group
Cascade Technologies
Circassia
Current Corporation
Cymbet
Daylight Solutions
Digi International
Ekips Technologies
Elbit Systems Ltd.
Elliot Scientific
Emerson
EnOcean GmbH
EnOcean Technology
Finisar
GE
Hamamatsu
Hensoldt
II-VI Incorporated
ILX Lightwave
InfraTec
Ionfinity
IPG Photonics
Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd
Johnson Controls
Kidde Products Limited
Kollmorgen
L-3 Harris Technologies Inc
Leidos Holdings Inc
Leonardo
Lockheed-Martin
Lumentum
M Squared
ManTech International
Marlow Industries
Maxion Technologies
Micro-Epsilon
MKS
Moog Inc
Nanophase Technologies
Newport Corporation
Northrop Grumman
NovaWave Technologies
Omega Engineering
Opto Diode Corporation
Opto Solutions
Physical Sciences
Power Technology
Raytheon
Rheinmetall
Rockwell Collins, Inc.
Saab AB
SensArrayInfrared
SenseAir
Sensor Switch
Sentinel Photonics
Sick AG
Sofradir
Spectris
Structured Materials Industries
Telaire
Teledyne/FLIR
Telops
Terahertz Device Corporation
Textron Inc
Thales Group
Thermo Fischer Scientific
Thorlabs
ULIS
United Technologies
United Technologies Corporation (UTC)
VIASPACE
Vigo System S.A.
Wuhan Cubic Electronics
Xenics

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