红外长余辉技术在生物成像探测及夜视保密探测等领域有着广阔的应用前景。本文结合该领域近期的一些进展, 对红外长余辉的定义、发光离子的选择、发光动力学过程以及红外长余辉激发谱学技术等几方面进行了简要阐述。在阐述过程中也着重指出了红外长余辉领域今后的几个可能学术研究方向。

Infrared persistent luminescence technology has promising applications in variety of important fields such as deep-tissue biomedical imaging and night-vision security surveillance. This paper presents a brief review on several key aspects, involving the definition of infrared persistent luminescence for reference, the design and choice of emitting ions, the basic knowledge on luminescence dynamic process, and the excitation spectroscopy for infrared persistent luminescence.