[Jason H. Gao] and [Li-Shiuan Peh] used an infra-red (IR) line laser and the camera on a smartphone. Their prototype cost only $49 since they used a smartphone that was on hand. The article ...

The contract supports the U.S. Navy’s Shipboard Panoramic Electro-Optic/Infrared (SPEIR) Program, with G5’s systems scheduled for delivery to L3Harris in 2025.

He built a rig that raster scans the laser across ... The new camera gives the spectrometer much more uniform sensitivity and allows [Les] to see further into the IR and UV bands.