The Advanced Solar Coronal Explorer (ASCE) is one of five missions selected for a Phase A Concept Study in the current round of proposed MIDEX missions. ASCE's instrument complement is supported by a SPARTAN 400 r...
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The Advanced Solar Coronal Explorer (ASCE) is one of five missions selected for a Phase A Concept Study in the current round of proposed MIDEX missions. ASCE's instrument complement is supported by a SPARTAN 400 reusable carrier. The spacecraft is carried into orbit and deployed by the Space Shuttle;at mission's end, nominally 2 years later, it is retrieved and returned to earth for post-flight calibration. ASCE comprises two instrument modules, the Spectroscopic and Polarimetric Coronagraph (SPC) and the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUVI). The external occulter for the coronagraph is supported on a boom, which is extended 10 meters beyond the instrument apertures once the spacecraft is on station. Large aperture optics can therefore be used, and this, in combination with improvements in optical and photon detection efficiencies, will provide spectroscopy of the extended solar corona with unprecedented sensitivity and spatial resolution, routine measurements of the electron temperature, and polarimetry of the H I Lyman lines. SPC also extends the short wavelength limit to 28 nm. As a consequence, SPC will be able to perform the first He ii 30.4 nm and He I 58.4 nm spectroscopy of the extended corona. In the visible part of the spectrum (450-600 nm), SPC's Large Aperture Spectroscopic Coronagraph (LASCO) channel will provide polarimetric images with 1.8 arc second resolution elements, which will allow the determination of polarized brightness of the coronal plasma. In a separate parallel channel LASCO will also provide images at single minor ion line wavelengths from which can be determined the shapes and Doppler shifts of those lines. The distant external occulter provides for major improvement in stray light suppression. The EUVI instrument will take high cadence images of the full disk and low corona at four selectable wavelengths with 0.9 arc second resolution elements. A description of the instrument design and performance capabilities is presented.
A high frame rate optically shuttered CCD camera for radiometric imaging of transient optical phenomena has been designed and several prototypes fabricated, which are now in evaluation phase. The camera design incorpo...
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A high frame rate optically shuttered CCD camera for radiometric imaging of transient optical phenomena has been designed and several prototypes fabricated, which are now in evaluation phase. The camera design incorporates stripline geometry image intensifiers for ultra fast image shutters capable of 200ps exposures. The intensifiers are fiber optically coupled to a multiport CCD capable of 75MHz pixel clocking to achieve 4KHz frame rate for 512 × 512 pixels from simultaneous readout of 16 individual segments of the CCD array. The intensifier, Philips XX1412MH/EO3, is generically a Generation ii proximity-focused micro channel plate intensifier (MCPii) redesigned for high speed gating by Los Alamos National Laboratory and manufactured by Philips Components. The CCD is a Reticon HS0512J split storage with bi-directional vertical readout architecture. The camera mainframe is designed utilizing a multilayer motherboard for transporting CCD video signals and clocks via imbedded stripline buses designed for 100MHz operation. The MCPii gate duration and gain variables are controlled and measured in real time and up-dated for data logging each frame, with 10-bit resolution, selectable either locally or by computer. The camera provides both analog and 10-bit digital video. The camera's architecture, salient design characteristics, and current test data depicting resolution, dynamic range, shutter sequences, and image reconstruction will be presented and discussed.
This paper reports on recent developments within research into optical fibre based voltage and current measurement equipment for metering and protection applications. Several parameters (thermal variations, intensity ...
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This paper reports on recent developments within research into optical fibre based voltage and current measurement equipment for metering and protection applications. Several parameters (thermal variations, intensity fluctuations due to mechanical disturbance, electronic noise) are known to influence the performance of these sensors and this paper summarises an analysis of the effect of such disturbances providing design criteria for the realisation of protection and metering class OCTs. Laboratory trials have shown that the compensation schemes devised reduce vibration errors by 20 to 30 dB and compensate for temperature induced drift to better than 0.1%. Extended engineering evaluation field trials of both OCT and OVT devices within a three phase 132 kV installation have been undertaken over the past two years. Details of these trials are presented to provide an appreciation of the potential difficulties which may be encountered and the benefits which may be derived.
This paper reports on recent developments within research into optical fibre based voltage and current measurement equipment for metering and protection applications. Several parameters (thermal variations, intensity ...
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This paper reports on recent developments within research into optical fibre based voltage and current measurement equipment for metering and protection applications. Several parameters (thermal variations, intensity fluctuations due to mechanical disturbance, electronic noise) are known to influence the performance of these sensors and this paper summarises an analysis of the effect of such disturbances providing design criteria for the realisation of protection and metering class OCTs. Laboratory trials have shown that the compensation schemes devised reduce vibration errors by 20 to 30 dB and compensate for temperature induced drift to better than 0.1%. Extended engineering evaluation field trials of both OCT and OVT devices within a three-phase 132 kV installation have been undertaken over the past two years. Details of these trials are presented to provide an appreciation of the potential difficulties which may be encountered and the benefits which may be derived.
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Joullié, A.Ctr. Electronique M.
UMR 5507 du CNRS Sciences et Techniques du Laguedoc Case 067 37095 Montpellier Cedex 05 France
A number of different approaches are being investigated to obtain high-performance mid-infrared (2-5 μm) diode lasers for applications such as infrared lidar, remote sensing and environmental monitoring. They include...
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A number of different approaches are being investigated to obtain high-performance mid-infrared (2-5 μm) diode lasers for applications such as infrared lidar, remote sensing and environmental monitoring. They include laser heterostructures based on interband transitions in quantum-well or superlattice active region, and quantum cascade structures based on unipolar intersubband transitions. The Sb-containing structures, employing GaSb, InAs, AlSb and related alloys, are focusing actually much attention. Significant improvements in the molecular beam epitaxy of these alloys make possible now the growth of laser antimonide structures of high structural quality. Excellent performances have been reported at ≈ 2 μm from GaInAsSb/AlGaAsSb and at ≈ 3.5 μm from InAsSb/InAlAsSb type-I quantum-well diode lasers. Type-ii (staggered alignment) GaInAsSb/GaSb and type-iiI (broken gap alignment) InAs/Ga(In)Sb strained multiquantum-well lasers are promising material systems for mid-infrared sources, due to their large conduction and valence band offsets, the potential of Auger process suppression and the enhancement of the electron-hole optical coupling by wave function engineering. Besides high performance interband quantum cascade lasers operating at room temperature with negligible current leakage and high output power can be designed from Sb-containing type-iiI structures.
Summary form only given. The transport of space charge dominated ion beams is of interest to many applications using high power particle beams. The most challenging demands are found in the field of ion beam driven in...
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Summary form only given. The transport of space charge dominated ion beams is of interest to many applications using high power particle beams. The most challenging demands are found in the field of ion beam driven inertial confinement fusion. Motivated by this application the space charge and current neutralized beam focusing and transport in gas discharge plasmas has been under investigation for a number of years. Paralleled by engineeringdesign work of a modified HILIFE ii reactor with discharge channel based final beam transport, and by experimental investigations of laser initiated high current discharges at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) the ion optical properties of such a channel will be studied for the first time with a heavy ion beam at GSI.
The proceedings contains 41 papers from the conference on currentdevelopments in opticaldesign and engineering Vii. The topics discussed include: laser beams;spherical aberrations;bar code scanners;zoom lenses;mirro...
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The proceedings contains 41 papers from the conference on currentdevelopments in opticaldesign and engineering Vii. The topics discussed include: laser beams;spherical aberrations;bar code scanners;zoom lenses;mirror telescopes;linear detector arrays;streak cameras;laser projection displays;video color mixers;optomechanical design;aspherical mirrors;x-ray optics system;optical resins;high-power lasers;birefringence;light reflection;finite element method and mumerical simulation.
Electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) is a wholefield non-contact optical metrology technique for displacement measurement, based on the optical physics of surface-generated laser speckle. Since its incepti...
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Electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) is a wholefield non-contact optical metrology technique for displacement measurement, based on the optical physics of surface-generated laser speckle. Since its inception during the early 1970s ESPI has gradually evolved into different opticaldesigns and has been applied to a range of engineering and non-engineering applications. Development of ESPI has continued during the 1990s with the introduction of new laser and optical technology into the interferometers, allowing further optimization and extending the potential applicability of the technique. This review considers the most notable developments of interferometer design and application that have occurred and been widely published during the 1990s, and examines the current and near-future direction of research into the technique.
In this paper we describe the design of a reflective / diffractive hybrid optical system, which features no obscuration, re-imagining system with 100% cold shield efficiency, 4 degrees of field of view, near diffracti...
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In this paper we describe the design of a reflective / diffractive hybrid optical system, which features no obscuration, re-imagining system with 100% cold shield efficiency, 4 degrees of field of view, near diffraction limited imaging quality, and working in the long wavelength infrared (LWIR) region of 8-12 microns.
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