METHODS AND TOOLS FOR BENCH-SCALE PARAMETERS AND CHARACTERISTICS CONTROL OF THE RANGING LASER CHANNEL AS A PART OF COMPLEX ACTIVE-PASSIVE ELECTRO-OPTICAL SYSTEMS OF FIELD COUPLING COAXIAL ARCHITECTURE
The paper considers the specifics of constructing a laser channel for ranging observation objects, which ensures its operation as part of a complexed active-passive electro-optical (EO) system of a coaxial field-coupling architecture. This work also describes the methods and means of bench testing of the laser rangefinder (laser and photo detector module) components basic parameters, control of the assembly and alignment of active-passive EO channels, as well as alignment of these channels; also, there is a description of the means of traceless control, which makes it possible to obtain the resulting evaluation of the functional characteristics of the laser rangefinder. Recommendations are given for further improvement of ways to build complexed active-passive channels of coaxial architecture.