Evaluation of thermo-radiation characteristics of IR windows in hypersonic vehicles

Yahui Wang; Qiang Wang Sr.; Bochuan Zhang Sr.; Bo Liang Sr.; Li Xu Sr.; Hongquan Yun Sr.

doi:10.1117/12.2179338

13 April 2015 Evaluation of thermo-radiation characteristics of IR windows in hypersonic vehicles

Yahui Wang, Qiang Wang Sr., Bochuan Zhang Sr., Bo Liang Sr., Li Xu Sr., Hongquan Yun Sr.

Proceedings Volume 9522, Selected Papers from Conferences of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee of the Chinese Society of Astronautics 2014, Part II; 95220R (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2179338
Event: Selected Proceedings of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee Conferences held August-October 2014, 2014, China, China

Abstract

When hypersonic vehicles have high-hypersonic flights in the atmosphere, high-temperature IR windows become the main factor of complicated aero-thermo-radiation effects, which would reduce the performance of IR detection systems, or even make these systems fail. By analyzing thermal radiation transfer in IR windows, an experimental platform is established to measure thermo-radiation characteristics of IR window materials. And a method is proposed to evaluate thermo-radiation characteristics of IR windows with uneven temperature distribution. Take a MWIR detection system of a hypersonic vehicle as an example, thermo-radiation characteristics of a sapphire IR window is evaluated. The results indicate that, thermo-radiation characteristics of the sapphire IR window material in 3.7μm-4.8μm have an approximate cubic relationship with temperature at 100°C~350°C. With the rise of temperature, the transmittance of the sapphire material decrease, while the window self-radiation increase. As the sapphire IR window is exposed in high-temperature and high-speed airflow, the transmittance drops 4%, still bigger than 95%, self-radiation enhance about 9 times, while temperature of the window rises rapidly. Self-radiation can drive detector into saturation easily, of which the influence on the MWIR detection system is bigger than that of transmittance.

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Yahui Wang, Qiang Wang Sr., Bochuan Zhang Sr., Bo Liang Sr., Li Xu Sr., and Hongquan Yun Sr. "Evaluation of thermo-radiation characteristics of IR windows in hypersonic vehicles", Proc. SPIE 9522, Selected Papers from Conferences of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee of the Chinese Society of Astronautics 2014, Part II, 95220R (13 April 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2179338

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