Passive/Active SWIR Sensors Nanosecond Timing Accuracy

Outfitting precision guided munitions with more capable and flexible target seeking technologies with negligible increase in cost and power and no increase in size can enable a new set of CONOPS that improve lethality, increase standoff range, and allow weapons to prosecute more complicated target sets in more complex battlespaces (multiple targets of similar or different likeness, moving and stationary, camouflaged, etc.). Common electro?optical seeker modalities include semi?active laser (SAL) or image?based in either the visible or infrared bands and dual model systems combining these modalities do so by use multiple sensors thus at added cost, size and power, but usually not both modalities. Attollo’s approach of combining high definition shortwave infrared (SWIR) passive imaging with a more sensitive SAL pulsed laser sensing into a single sensor element is a natural progression for next?generation dual?mode seeker sensors that has a number of benefits over traditional quad cell?based seekers and the use of discreet sensors to achieve the dual mode capability