First Laboratory Measurements of a Super-Resolved Compressive Instrument in the Medium Infrared

In the framework of the SURPRISE EU project, the Compressive Sensing paradigm was applied for the development of a laboratory demonstrator with improved spatial sampling operating from visible up to Medium InfraRed (MIR). The demonstrator, which utilizes a commercial Digital Micromirror Device modified by replacing its front window with one transparent up to MIR, has 10 bands in the VIS-NIR range and 2 bands in the MIR range, showing a super resolution factor up to 32. Measurements performed in the MIR spectral range using hot sources as targets show that CS is effective in reconstructing super-resolved hot targets.