Electro-optical imaging systems integration
Since the advent of high resolution, high data rate electronic sensors for military aircraft, the demands on their counterpart, the image generator hard copy output system, have increased dramatically. This has included support of direct overflight and standoff reconnaissance systems and often has required operation within a military shelter or van. The Tactical Laser Beam Recorder (TLBR) design has met the challenge each time. A third generation (TLBR) was designed and two units delivered to rapidly produce high quality wet process imagery on 5-inch film from a 5-sensor digital image signal input. A modular, in-line wet film processor is included in the total TLBR (W) system. The system features a rugged optical and transport package that requires virtually no alignment or maintenance. It has a ''Scan FIX'' capability which corrects for scanner fault errors and ''Scan LOC'' system which provides for complete phase synchronism isolation between scanner and digital image data input via strobed, 2-line digital buffers. Electronic gamma adjustment automatically compensates for variable film processing time as the film speed changes to track the sensor. This paper describes the fourth meeting of that challenge, the High Resolution Laser Beam Recorder (HRLBR) for Reconnaissance/Tactical applications.
- OSTI ID:
- 6502981
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-870132-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: OE/LASE '87, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 11 Jan 1987; Related Information: SPIE Volume 762
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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