探测器工业的发展一直主要取决于军用市场的需求,各国红外探测器销量中,约有90％用于军事防御。随着冷战的结束和军费开支的减少,探测器工业正向军民两用方面发展并扩大民用销量。美国的探测器工业一直居世界领先地位。自1979年圣·巴巴拉研究中心为Maverick导弹导引头生产装备了2.5万多具前视红外(FLIR)系统和1.8万套探测器/杜瓦瓶之后,大量的军用红外探测器市 The development of the detector industry has always depended on the needs of the military market. Approximately 90% of the country’s infrared detector sales are for military defense. With the end of the cold war and the reduction in military spending, the detector industry is moving toward civilian-military use and expanding civilian sales. The United States detector industry has been the world leader. Since 1979, St. Barbara Research Center equipped the Maverick Missile Seeker with more than 25,000 FLIR systems and 18,000 detector / dewar vials, a large number of military infrared detectors