CRYSTAL camera: an infrared prototype instrument for flow visualization between 90 and 313 K has been installed in a cryogenic wind tunnel

Jean-Francois Goussu; Philippe Deliot

doi:10.1117/12.447309

5 November 2001 CRYSTAL camera: an infrared prototype instrument for flow visualization between 90 and 313 K has been installed in a cryogenic wind tunnel

Jean-Francois Goussu, Philippe Deliot

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Proceedings Volume 4444, Optomechanical Design and Engineering 2001; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447309
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

ONERA has developed an IR camera prototype named CRYSTAL to perform surface flow visualization at cryogenic temperatures in the severe environment of ETW GmbH. The camera, which has been operating since 1998, is based on a 128 X 192 Si:Ga focal plane array and is, to our knowledge, the first world- wide IR camera to work in a cryogenic wind tunnel and at such temperatures. Indeed, the working temperature of the tunnel varies between 313 K and 90K. The qualitative thermometry of CRYSTAL from the ambient reaches down to 120 K. The aerodynamic effects to observe need a level of resolution inferior to 1 K. This paper addresses the mechanical aspects of the instrument.

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Jean-Francois Goussu and Philippe Deliot "CRYSTAL camera: an infrared prototype instrument for flow visualization between 90 and 313 K has been installed in a cryogenic wind tunnel", Proc. SPIE 4444, Optomechanical Design and Engineering 2001, (5 November 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447309

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