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PASSIVE NIGHT VISION DEVICE [1 record]

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Record 1 2020-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Instruments
CONT

Passive night vision devices work by sending light through a lens, an image intensifying tube, and another lens. Light enters through a lens called the objective lens, which is similar to a fine camera lens. The lens focuses the light into the image intensifier tube.

OBS

[Passive night vision devices] operate by amplifying the existing background light; the moon, stars, street lights, and so on, by several thousand times ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'optique

Spanish

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