High Speed Photography, Videography, And Photonic Instrumentation Development At The Air Force Armament Laboratory

Donald R. Snyder; Rodney M. Powell

doi:10.1117/12.948682

Translator Disclaimer

1 February 1989 High Speed Photography, Videography, And Photonic Instrumentation Development At The Air Force Armament Laboratory

Donald R. Snyder, Rodney M. Powell

Author Affiliations +

Proceedings Volume 0981, High Speed Photography, Videography, and Photonics VI; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948682
Event: 32nd Annual International Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1988, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The Instrumentation Technology Branch of the Air Force Armament Laboratory is currently involved in the development of several high speed photographic, videographic, and photonic instrumentation systems to support the testing and analysis of developmental weapons and test items under dynamic conditions. These projects include development of a large format (14 inch by 17 inch) laser illuminated Cranz-Schardin shadowgraph system for materials research, development of a solid state imager based shadowgraph system for aeroballistic studies, experiments with gated imagers for a variety of test applications, and experiments with high speed video imagers and illuminators for airborne and range tracking instrumentation. An additional issue discussed is the development of a timing and annotation standard for video imaging instrumentation systems operating at higher than NTSC standard rates.

Citation Download Citation

Donald R. Snyder and Rodney M. Powell "High Speed Photography, Videography, And Photonic Instrumentation Development At The Air Force Armament Laboratory", Proc. SPIE 0981, High Speed Photography, Videography, and Photonics VI, (1 February 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948682

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE