In order to realize the transient high temperature measurement in the harsh environment and narrow space, a sapphire fiber tantalum (melting point 2 997 ℃) - zirconia (melting point 2 715 ℃) thin film black body cavity transient high temperature sensor is developed by the sputtering and plasma spray- ing technology. Constant high temperature static sensitivity calibration device, which is composed of three water electrolysis oxyhydrogen flame guns, and dynamic characteristic calibration device with high power and high frequency modulated CO2 laser pulse as step excitation source are designed. The mea- sured results show that, when the temperature of constant temperature area of the static sensitivity calibration device is 1 721 ℃ and the impact resistance of the sensor is up to above 50 MPa, the temperature measured by the sensor is 2 802 ℃. When the CO2 laser pulse is used as a high temperature step input signal at 1 500 ℃, the time constant measured by the sensor is μs order of magnitude.