COLOR NIGHT VISION APPARATUS

There is disclosed a color night vision device, which employs a separate image intensifier for each primary color. Thus, the apparatus employs an image intensifier for red, an image intensifier for green and an image intensifier for blue. In one embodiment, each image intensifier produces an image of that color from light which is distributed to the input of the image intensifier through a dichroic X-Cube system. The output of each image intensifier produces an image corresponding to the input image of a corresponding color. Thus, the green image intensifier produces a green image, the red image intensifier produces a red image and the blue image intensifier produces a blue image. The three images are superimposed or combined to produce a true color output image. Superimposition of the images can occur by means of a suitable dichroic output device which is similar to the dichroic input device or in alternate embodiments, the use of bent fibers or charge coupled display devices.