摘要 |
A cyclically operable, optical shutter particularly suited for use as a focal plane shutter, characterized by an occulting disk having a pair of radiation occulting sectors defining therebetween a pair of diametrically opposed, radiation transmitting sectors driven in rotation by a D.C. motor. A particular feature of the shutter resides in a combination of a servo-control system with the motor for accelerating the disk from a steady state of zero velocity to a preselected steady state of angular velocity, maintaining the steady state during a predetermined period of radiation transmission, and subsequently decelerating the disk to a steady state of zero velocity within a fraction of a single revolution, whereby a pulse of radiation having a preselected width is gated through an associated aperture with a high degree of uniformity and reproducibility.
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