Factory acceptance test results for the DIRSP projection optics

摘要

The Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) results for the projection optical subsystem (POS) of US Army STIRCOM's dynamic infrared scene projector (DIRSP) are presented in this paper. DIRSP is a low background (-35 deg C) hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL), long-wave infrared (LWIR) scene projector built by Mission Research Corporation (MRC) for use by the Redstone Technical Test center (RTTC). It has an erffective emitter array size of 1632 x 672 suspended-membrane micro-resistor elements. The POS is responsible for generating this effective array size from three smaller arrays using a mosaic image combiner, adding background light from an external blackbody, and collimating the combined radiation with a 5:1 vacuum enclosed -35 deg C zoom lens. The FAT results reported demonstrate good POS performance compared to the design for focal length, F/ , MTF and apparent temperature.