Abstract
We demonstrate the image conversion from mid-IR to near-IR (NIR) exploiting high-contrast optical switching in vanadium oxide thin-film layers. The intensity distribution of a mid-IR beam is converted to NIR wavelengths exploiting the strong reflectivity changes induced by optical pumping in the mid-IR. We show an experimental setup in which the radiation of a Tm-doped fiber laser at and a carbon dioxide at has been converted to both and . The resolution was and was reached by using an inexpensive CCD camera. The sensitivity of the device increases linearly with sample temperature. We measured a threshold of , with a sample temperature of .
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