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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 1986
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Barrett H Ripin, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Robert R Whitlock, College Park, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
376153 ; 356318 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for measuring the emissivity and opacity coefficients of a test plasma. The apparatus includes a target comprising a support structure of a carrier material with an asymmetrical sample of a test material disposed thereon, a driver for ionizing the test material into a test plasma and the carrier material into a carrier plasma, and spectrographs for measuring the intensity of photons traversing said test plasma. Embodiments including a separate photon source are also disclosed.