Abstract:
Extended source light transmission through mean flow field and imaging have not been fully studied. When an extended source is closed to an imaging system in a forebody with a side-mounted window, light emitted by this extended source passing through the mean flow field and imaging are studied with ray tracing and Fourier optics. It is found that imaging deviation angles and imaging blur indexes of different point sources of the extended source are different. So integrated deviation index and integrated blur index are adopted to describe entire deviation and blur conditions of the extended source imaging, respectively. It is also found that when the relative position of the extended source and imaging system is invariant, and the mean flow field moves along flow, expansion and optical axis directions relative to the imaging system respectively, integrated deviation index and integrated blur index vary. Varying conditions of the two indexes are different among the three moving conditions. The reasons of these phenomena are deeply analyzed. In engineering design, this research may be beneficial to selection of a proper location of the imaging system relative to the window.