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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1979
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1977
Eugene F McCrum, Garden Grove, CA (US);
William K Tomita, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
James G Myers, Corona del Mar, CA (US);
John T Rehak, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
In a system employing a collimated beam projector radiating energy of a single wavelength and an image detector sensitive to a band of wavelengths, a boresight technique includes the steps of extracting a portion of the projected beam, focusing the extracted portion onto a predetermined point of a boresight target material until said material responsively emits radiation in said band of wavelengths, and collimating the emitted radiation into said image detector at a field of view location corresponding to the projected beam location.