Calibration of IR Test Chambers with the Missile Defense Transfer Radiometer

Published

September 30, 2013

Author(s)

Simon G. Kaplan, Solomon I. Woods, Adriaan C. Carter, Timothy M. Jung

Abstract

The Missile Defense Transfer Radiometer (MDXR) is designed to calibrate infrared collimated and flood sources over the fW/cm2 to W/cm2 power range from 3 m to 28 m in wavelength. The MDXR operates in three different modes: as a filter radiometer, a Fourier-transform spectrometer (FTS)- based spectroradiometer, and as an absolute cryogenic radiometer (ACR). Since 2010, the MDXR has made measurements of the collimated infrared irradiance at the output port of seven different infrared test chambers at several facilities. We present a selection of results from these calibration efforts compared to signal predictions from the respective chamber models for the three different MDXR calibration modes. We also compare the results to previous measurements made of the same chambers with a legacy transfer radiometer, the NIST BXR. In general, the results are found to agree within their combined uncertainties, with the MDXR having 30 % lower uncertainty and greater spectral coverage.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of SPIE Vol 8707

Conference Dates

April 29-May 3, 2013

Conference Location

Baltimore, MD

Conference Title

Technologies for Synthetic Environments: Hardware-in-the-Loop XVIII

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

infrared, radiometry, calibration, cryogenics, transfer radiometer, Fourier-transform spectrometer

Citation

Kaplan, S. , Woods, S. , Carter, A. and Jung, T. (2013), Calibration of IR Test Chambers with the Missile Defense Transfer Radiometer, Proceedings of SPIE Vol 8707, Baltimore, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=913741 (Accessed April 18, 2024)