What does FP stand for?

Focal Plane

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Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

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Samples in periodicals archive:

EPIR uses molecular beam epitaxy to produce state-of-the-art single- and multi-element infrared detectors packaged as detector/cooler assemblies, as well as HgCdTe wafers for infrared camera focal plane arrays.

Korea: Sunovia Energy Receives Permit from U.S. State Department to ...

It has a focal plane of 36 feet and produces four flashes every 20 seconds, white or red depending on direction - white has a range of 11 nautical miles and red has five miles.

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Riley, president and general manager of Teledyne Scientific & Imaging was awarded the Henry Levinstein Award for a lifetime of achievement in "outstanding technical and management contributions in the development of Focal Plane Arrays for the military sensing community and national defense.

Kevin J. Riley, president and general manager of Teledyne Scientific ...

The Jade infrared camera uses a 320 x 240-pixel sensitive microbolometer focal plane array sensor offering thermal sensitivity of less than 80 mk and a thermal response time of less than four milliseconds.

Cedip says Jade is ready

Another challenge is choosing a lens concept that will be forgiving for the focal plane.

Machine vision challenges: the key to success: flexibility with ...

The detection portion of the system is centered on a focal plane array of uncooled, millimeter-wave bolometers.

PAPER DESCRIBES NEW SYSTEM FOR DETECTING CONCEALED WEAPONS

The system has a 3rd Gen FLIR focal plane staring array, said Vic Taber, Raytheon's program manager for AT-FLIR.

Air Force to Select Advanced Targeting Pod

Moreover, an optical microscope creates a sharp image only of objects that lie in the flat focal plane, making it difficult to see a three-dimensional structure--especially if the object is alive.

Microscope yields sharp 3-D images