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Seeing through glass using IR

I want to use my IR video setup through the glass walls of the aquarium, rather than dunking the (waterproof) video camera in the aquarium. It occured to me, however, that perhaps infra red light does not succesfully pass through glass. I found this interesting article which explains that relatively high wavelength infrared light (just a little bit longer than red light) does pass through glass, but low wavelength infrared light doesn’t. I’m pretty sure that’s okay. Based on this person’s discussion, most commercial products use light from the higher end, and these seem to pick up fish just fine.

posted at 13:07 on Thu, 26 Jan, 2006 | path: /school



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