Sensors & Electronics
Physical Property Sensors
Transmissometer Optics Development (177)
Problem: Design multi-band optical transmissometer modules to allow field evaluation of military obscurant effectiveness
Project Activity Scope (from Technical Overview Chart): Sensors & Devices through Instruments
PNNL Solution:
- Established performance specification
- Selected pitch/catch system concept
- Designed multi-band optical source (Visible-IR) with collimating optics
- Designed receiver with "color" filtering for spectral band discrimination
- Designed electronics & optical mount subsystems to enable equipment use
- Demonstrated superior performance
Capabilities Employed to Meet Client Needs: Multi-band optical source evaluation & design including source intensity stabilization to allow reliable quantitative measurements; multi-band detection system design employing multiple bandpass filters provide data at specified optical wavelengths; reflective telescope optical design for source and receiver modules; detector electronics design to recover signals with high dynamic range; electro-optical mounting hardware design; system assembly & alignment; design package documentation.
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Contact: Tim Peters
