Diamond hood protects the seeker of a supersonic missile

The UK's Defense Assessment and Research Agency (DERA) has a proven knowledge of infrared optical materials, and DEBID is an old-fashioned synthetic diamond producer who collaborates to develop protective covers for future supersonic missile infrared seekers. It should have good optical properties and be resistant to rapid heating (emitter sections) and sand and rain erosion (in flight). Diamond not only has mechanical properties that cannot be surpassed, but also has good optical properties in the "full" band from near-infrared to far-infrared. It can be said that it is the last choice of infrared seeker protective cover material. The far-infrared seeker can more effectively resist interference and track the target on a natural interference background. Diamond is the only choice for its protective cover material.
DEBID's protective cover samples produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technology were "faced" under strict protection at the 2000 Van Boro Air Show and weighed approximately 20 grams. It has just been produced and exhibited, and even polished in the future, so it does not seem to meet the technical requirements of transparency.
DEBID has used the company's unique CVD diamond synthesis and processing technology to create a protective cover of a certain shape. The rigorous generation process developed ensures that the uniformity and morphology are controllable so that the resulting infrared hood can meet the application requirements. To ensure that the cover and optical assembly are accurately assembled, the inner and outer surfaces should be precisely polished and kept parallel. The final finished product should have low loss and low scattering in the infrared band to make it more widely used in imaging processors.
According to DERA, the diamond cover has very little scattering in the long-wave infrared segment. The CVD method can produce a protective cover with a diameter of 100 mm, which fully meets the requirements of the "Advanced Hot-Seeking Missile System".

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