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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
May. 23, 2012
Armando Corella, Azusa, CA (US);
Lynne F. Buzdar, Placentia, CA (US);
Ronald A. Gidseg, Pasadena, CA (US);
Armando Corella, Azusa, CA (US);
Lynne F. Buzdar, Placentia, CA (US);
Ronald A. Gidseg, Pasadena, CA (US);
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Abstract
In a directed infrared countermeasure system, to assure parallelism between the line-of-sight to a target and the output beam, the input and output mirrors are fixedly attached to a uni-construction arm mounted to a rotatable azimuth platter to which internal mirrors are also fixedly attached. A system is provided for zeroing out alignment errors by developing an aim-point map for the gimbal that records initial alignment errors induced by manufacturing tolerances and uses the aim-point map error values to correct the output mirror orientation. The system also corrects for alignment errors induced by thermal gradients.