CASS electro-optic console laser testing

Author

McDade, John

Author_Institution

General Electric Co., Daytona Beach, FL, USA

fYear

1992

Firstpage

459

Lastpage

463

Abstract

The majority of laser target designators in the current military inventory are 1.064- mu m, Q-switched, Nd:YAG laser transmitters. In addition to its capabilities for forward looking infrared (FLIR) and camera testing, the consolidated automated support system (CASS) electrooptic (EO) configuration eliminates the need for dedicated laser transmitter testers. Using state-of-the-art instrumentation, CASS has the ability to determine laser energy and far-field spatial characteristics that include alignment, peak power, pulse energy, energy distribution, beam divergence, satellite beam measurements, and pulse period. All these tests are performed under ATLAS test programming language control.<>

Keywords

automatic test equipment; laser variables measurement; maintenance engineering; military equipment; neodymium; solid lasers; transmitters; yttrium compounds; 1.064 micron; ATLAS test programming language control; CASS; FLIR; FPA; Q-switched laser; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; alignment; beam divergence; camera testing; consolidated automated support system; electro-optic console laser testing; energy distribution; far-field spatial characteristics; forward looking infrared; laser energy; laser target designators; laser transmitter; peak power; pulse energy; pulse period; satellite beam measurements; Automatic testing; Cameras; Instruments; Laser beams; Lasers and electrooptics; Optical design; Optical pulses; Optical transmitters; Pulse measurements; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON '92. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference, Conference Record

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0643-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.1992.270075

Filename

270075