Question re this: > Although the development of mid-IR (MIR) sources is evolving, a bottleneck con- tinues to be producing low-noise room tem-perature detectors

How do these relate to the relatively cheap IR cameras available? Eg, both commercial IR cameras, and military NVGs work at room temperature (Using different technologies). For example, are the devices lamented about in the article high-precision scientific instrument that can detect very fine differences in freq?

edit: This may be the key: > The noise-equivalent power of hybrid nanocavity- molecular detectors is predicted to be 100-fold lower than commercial uncooled detectors.