31 January 2020 Influence of cooling film pressure on the imaging quality of a hypersonic optical dome
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Abstract

The flow-field-caused aero-optical effect is becoming a crucial issue in hypersonic flight. The degraded imaging results can seriously affect the aircraft’s ability to capture targets. Experiments were carried out in a Mach 6-gun tunnel, and the imaging quality of a hypersonic optical dome was investigated under six different values of pressure ratio of jet. Background oriented schlieren was used to obtain the point spread functions (PSFs), which were then used to evaluate the imaging quality of the optical dome. The experimental results showed that cooling film with higher pressure will reduce the support field of the PSF and will have a more severe influence on the imaging quality.

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Xinhai Zhao, Shihe Yi, and Haolin Ding "Influence of cooling film pressure on the imaging quality of a hypersonic optical dome," Optical Engineering 59(1), 013104 (31 January 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.59.1.013104
Received: 19 October 2019; Accepted: 14 January 2020; Published: 31 January 2020
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KEYWORDS
Point spread functions

Domes

Image quality

Windows

Infrared imaging

Optical engineering

Imaging systems

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