| Night vision goggles are optical instruments, which | | | | which the image gets illuminated. It is the function of |
| allow images to be produced in low levels of light, | | | | the ocular lenses on the goggles to help in focusing |
| nearing night. These instruments are usually used by | | | | on the images. |
| law enforcement and military agencies and but are | | | | There is another type of night vision googles too, |
| also used by civilians. These devices are different | | | | which uses thermal imaging to make night vision |
| from binoculars though often confused with them. | | | | possible. This kind of night vision goggles use the |
| Here are some things that are required if you want | | | | heat of electro-magnetic radiation, which is emitted |
| to know how to make night vision goggles. The | | | | by most objects, be they living or non-living. Because |
| image intensifier tube was the invention, which made | | | | of this, thermal imaging night vision goggles are able |
| the invention of night vision devices, including goggles | | | | to use these heat signatures in order to display an |
| possible. The image intensifier is a tube that is able to | | | | image of the object. |
| convert photons in to electrons and is able to amplify | | | | These night vision devices win over the light |
| even minute quantities of light making it possible to | | | | intensifier night vision goggles because of the fact |
| see in the darkness. | | | | that they require no light at all to be made active and |
| The mechanism of the tube is that when the light | | | | can therefore be used in places where there is no |
| enters the objective lens, it strikes a photo cathode, | | | | light such as in hazes and fogs. |
| which also carries an energy charge. This charge | | | | Now that you know about the elements that go into |
| travels through the intensifier to convert photons into | | | | night vision goggles, you can try and see how to |
| electrons and then strikes a phosphor screen on | | | | make night vision goggles of your own! |