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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2001
Albert W. Kongable, Orlando, FL (US);
Mark T. Myers, Orlando, FL (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A compact infrared (IR) scene generator capable of generating multiple-color mid-IR scenes through the use of readily available commercial near-IR lasers and a fluorescent conversion material (FCM). Such a scene generator would be useful to test IR imaging sensors in a controlled laboratory environment. In operation, each laser emits energy at an initial wavelength outside the operating band of an IR imaging sensor. This energy of a first set of wavelengths is written onto the FCM in patterns, which collectively form an IR scene. The FCM absorbs the energy and radiates it at wavelengths longer than the initial wavelengths, i.e., a second set of wavelengths. As these longer wavelengths are within the operating waveband of the IR imaging sensor, the patterns written onto the FCM are detectable by it.