808 



bias errors, {Cont.) 



predictable, 123, 128 

 bidirectional coupler, 548 

 binocular acuity, 646 

 Birdsall, T. G., 308 n. 

 black body temperatures, 799-800 

 Blake, L. V., 162 n. 

 blind spot, 637 

 blip-scan curve, 329 

 blip-scan ratio, 144 

 Boltzmann's constant, 353, 750 

 boxcar detectors, 257 

 branched duplexer, 568 

 breakaway display, 655 

 Brewster angle, 183 

 bright band effect, 761 

 brightness, contrast and, 631, 641; 



defined, 630, 635; electroluminescent, 



666; range of, 618 

 bright spot wander noise, 396, 400 

 Brown, R. M., 554 n. 

 brute force jamming, 15 

 B type presentation, 615-616 

 Burdine, B. H., 530 n. 

 Burrows, C. R., 182 n. 



Cacheris, J., 563 n. 



Calcote, H. F., 232 n. 



camouflaged target, 10 



Campbell, J., 747 



CAP, see combat air patrols 



capacitor, electroluminescent, 669; fer- 

 roelectric, 669-670 



Caplan, P. J., 229 n. 



Capps, F. M., 182 n. 



Carcinotron, 602-603, 605 



Carl, J. M., 643 n. 



carrier, aircraft, see aircraft carrier 



carrier deck space, 74 



carrier frequency, 26-27 



cascade circuit, 370 



cascode input amplifier, 380 



cascode preamplifier, 797 



cathode ray tube, beam deflector in, 

 624-625; beam-shaping type, 671-673; 

 in display system design, 621; in 

 ground mapping, 781-782; intensity 

 modulated, 630 



cavity resonator, 416, 582, 590-591 



channels, number of, 297-299 



Charactron tube, 671-672 



Chestnut, Harold, 492 n. 



INDEX 



chromatic aberration, 173 



Chromatron tube, 663-664 



"chunks," of information, 620 



CIC, see combat information centers 



circle of confusion, 786 



circulators, 559-560, 572 



clamping circuits, 257-258 



Clavin, Alvin, 563 n. 



Clementson, G. C, 438 



cloud clutter, 10-11, 35 



clutter power, 271 



clutter problem, 35, 322; solutions to, 



224-227; see also ground clutter; sea 



clutter 

 clutter spectra, pulsed doppler system, 



322 

 coaxial lines, 537 



coherency, in doppler navigation sys- 

 tems, 738 

 coherent detector, 298 

 coherent radar transmitter, 738 

 Cohn, Seymour B., 543 n. 

 cold plate cooling, 687 

 collision course, 132 

 collision guidance, 120 

 collision vectoring, 72-73, 108-111, 120 

 color differentiation, human eye, 10, 638 

 color transposition, mapping and, 10 

 color tubes, in display system design, 



661-665 

 combat air patrols (CAP), 53, 63, 76 

 combat information centers (CIC), 15, 



71-72, 85; height finding and, 95; 



target resolution and, 76 

 comb filter, 279, 376 

 communications systems, 53, 66; radar 



system and, 12-13 

 conical scanning, 515, 519, 523 

 contact analogue display, 675-676 

 continuous correction AFC, 407-411; 



see also automatic frequency control 

 continuous wave (CW) systems, 20, 293, 



311-320, 121-131; duplexing in, 567; 



see also FM/CW systems 

 contrast, brightness and, 631; defined, 



641 

 control electrode, 600 

 control loop errors, 442-448 

 conversion probability, 132-134 

 conversion problem, analysis of, 116- 



129; lock-on range and look-angle 



requirements, 130-135 



