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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 1976
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1975
Michael J Brienza, Westport, CT (US);
Paul M Danzer, Norwalk, CT (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
A monopulse optical receiving system is comprised of a plurality of optical sensors for receiving an incident light pulse at angles of incidence within a field of view, and providing in response thereto an output voltage signal whose magnitude is a function of the incident angle, at least two of the sensors being relatively disposed so that a portion of the field of view of one of them overlaps with a portion of the field of view of another one of them to provide an overlapping field of view within which the two sensors provide complementary transmittance gradients, the two sensors further providing mutually complementary voltage signals in response to light incidence within the overlapping field of view, the system further comprising a processing unit which calculates both an immediate coarse angle value for the incident light pulse and a fine angle describing the precise incident angle relative to the coarse angle value.