In this paper, in order to track and measure the long-distance target, a continuous zoom optical system with a diameter of 400mm and focal length of 1000mm-4000mm is designed. The imaging quality evaluation of optical system is mainly carried out from the following five aspects: field curvature, distortion, transfer function MTF of optical system, energy concentration and spot array. Through the simulation calculation of image quality, the performance of optical system meets the requirements of clear imaging.
In this paper, a homogeneous off-axis reflective infrared imaging system with an aperture of Φ300mm is designed according to the requirements. The calculation and optimization of structural parameters are completed in the optical software Code V. The system obscuration is eliminated by combining aperture off-axis with off-axis field of view. By introducing complex surface type to correct the residual aberrations, the off-axis optical system with good capability and structure size meeting the overall layout requirements is obtained. The system is composed by main reflector (F-1), secondary mirror (F-2), plane mirror (M) and the third mirror (F-3). The mirror M is a folding reflector; even aspheric surface is used for both F-1, F-2 and F-3 mirror. The uncooled thermal imager is used as the imaging device. The target plane of the detector is 10.88mm × 8.70mm, and the corresponding field of view is 0.6 °× 0.45 °. At 15lp / mm, MTF > 0.2 is close to the diffraction limit of the system, and the wavefront aberration of the full field of view is less than 0.01λ. The distortion is less than 1.2%.
In view of the detection requirements of "low slow and small" targets in the air, this paper introduces a kind of folded and reverse type near infrared television camera. The initial structure design of large aperture near infrared optical system is completed by using the characteristics of refraction optical system and reflective optical system. The focal length is 1200mm and f # is 10. The system is optimized by code V software. Optical transfer function and dispersion circle are used as the evaluation criteria. The image quality of the system reaches the diffraction limit. In this paper, the optical system selection, optical material selection, aberration analysis and other aspects are considered, and the folded optical scheme is proposed. The system blocking ratio is less than 28%, and the distortion is less than 0.5%. The transfer function is close to the diffraction limit, and MTF is more than 0.25 at 50lp/mm. The diameter of dispersion element is the same as the pixel size of detector, and the energy utilization rate is high. Then, the system structure design is completed, and the stray light analysis is completed for the optical machine model and the suppression measures are put forward to ensure the clear observation image of the whole market.
It was an effective way to keep the pivotal element of the lens under a specific temperature in order to increase the detection sensitivity, so that the thermocurrent caused by thermal radiation of the lens itself could be control under a lower level, But it was difficult to decide which element was the correct one and what was the temperature should be kept. To solve this problem, we, We used LightTools to simulate the cold optical lens deign and established a calculation and analysis method. which can be applied to the analysis of most infrared systems and has universal applicability.
The GZIII.18/18-ZQ is a spherical three generation image intensifier, whose cathodic sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio index are significantly improved compared to the second generation, which can improve the night detection capability and observation effect of the microlight night vision. According to the spectra of three generation image intensifier spectral response, sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratio and other parameters, combined with the system requirements of the field of view, resolution and other technical indicators, a low level light system is designed with a focal length of 20.00mm, F number 1.29 and the field of view of 50 degrees. The system uses four lenses, the total length of the total objective is less than 60mm, and the weight is less than 100g. Using a free-surface prism to achieve optical circuit rotation, the performance is improved. Finally, we get the off-axis MTF curve in 40lp/mm greater than 0.5, the whole field of view distortion is less than 4% without vignetting , the transmission rate is greater than 83%.
According to the requirement of system,an one-dimensional beam shaping system is designed for semiconductor laser. In this beam shaping system, we choose an aspheric cylindrical mirror as the shaping element. To design the aspheric cylindrical mirror, we first calculate the incipient structure and then use the software light tools to optimize and simulate. The result shows that for a semiconductor laser whose beam diverging angle is 40°, the diverging angle will smaller than 1mrad after shaping by the aspheric cylindrical mirror. Also, we test the actual beam shaping system and the result shows that it meets the requirement of system well.
Super-wide FOV lens has a short focal length, making the detection distance shorter. To suit the need of long detection distance, the inversed telephoto structure is used. In this paper, we designed a super-wide FOV camera system with a negative-positive inversed telephoto structure, whose FOV is 95°×71.25°.And optical aberration were analyzed detailedly, the structure of foreside and backside were made certain respectively, based on these, optical optimum design was accomplished.The result shows that in the entire field of view, the MTF at 60lp/mm is more than 0.4, the diameter RMS of spot diagram dispersion circle is less than 5 microns and the maximum distortion is less than 5%. The result shows that it meets the requirement of system well.
In this paper, we put forward a new method to adjust the air gap of the total reflection air gap of the infrared Pechan prism. The adjustment of the air gap in the air gap of the Pechan prism directly affects the parallelism of the optical axis, so as to affect the consistency of the optical axis of the infrared system. The method solves the contradiction between the total reflection and the high transmission of the infrared wave band, and promotes the engineering of the infrared wave band. This paper puts forward the method of adjusting and controlling, which can ensure the full reflection and high penetration of the light, and also can accurately measure the optical axis of the optical axis of the different Pechan prism, and can achieve the precision of the level of the sec. For Pechan prism used in the infrared band image de rotation, make the product to realize miniaturization, lightweight plays an important significance.
According to the requirement of detector, a continuous zooming TV camera with a high resolution and a large zoom ratios used for precision strike was designed. In this paper, basis the selection of continuous zooming optical systems was discussed. Combing with PW method, the incipient structure was computed. Using the CODE V, the optimum design was done. Having analyzed the cam curve of this zooming system, a continuous zooming optical system meeting the technical requirements well was designed, which provided the technical support for the miniaturization of the structure and the stability of the optic axis. This continuous zooming optical system has been checked with image quality testing, real imaging and environment testing and the result showed that the image quality was well, the optic axis was stable and the system meet the requirement of detector well.
With the demand of autonomous precision guidance of air defense missile, the system scheme of the IR imaging/Ladar dual-mode seeker with a common aperture was proposed, and the optical system used in was designed. The system had a common receiving aperture, and its structure was very compact, so it could meet the requirement for the miniaturization of the seeker. Besides, it also could meet the demands of a wide field of view for searching target, and the demands for accurately recognizing and tracking the target at the same time. In order to increase the narrow FOV tracking performance, the dual FOV infrared optical used the zooming mode which some components flip in or out the optical system to firm the target signal. The dual FOV optics are divided into the zooming part, with dual variable focal length, and the reimaging part which was chosen in such a way to minimize the objective lens while maintaining 100% cold shield efficiency. The final infrared optics including 4°×3°(NFOV) and 16°×12°(WFOV) was designed. The NFOV lens composed of two common IR/Ladar lens, three relay lens, a beam splitter and two reflective fold mirrors, while WFOV lens increased two lens such as Germanium and Silicon. The common IR/Ladar lens ZnS and ZnSe could refractive the IR optics and Laser optics. The beam splitter which refractived IR optics and reflected Laser optics was located in the middle of Germanium and Silicon. The designed optical system had good image quality, and fulfilled the performance requirement of seeker system.
For the realization of target detection and monitoring of a wide range with the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an UAV-based reconnaissance and surveillance system was proposed. The main optical system was consisted of visible camera with narrow field of view (FOV), mid-wave infrared camera (MWIR) and long-wave infrared camera (LWIR). The aperture was shared and the spectrum was disparted in the terminal. The diameter of primary mirror was 170mm. The focal length was 880mm and field of view was 0.86º for visible camera with narrow FOV, the focal length was 880mm and field of view was 0.8º for MWIR camera, the focal length was 220mm and field of view was 3.2º for LWIR camera. Considering the influence of temperature on the imaging quality, a kind of material with good thermal property was used as mirror substrate. The athermalization method was introduced to realize a high image quality in a wide temperature range of -40℃~+65℃. Zoom optical system was adopted in the visible camera with middle FOV and wide FOV, the view of it was 3.4º~34º. The operating distance of laser channel was designed to 20km. The results of the design indicated that this set of optical system could be used for ground target detection and monitoring of a wide range, met user’s requirement.
With the demand on Infrared and Electro-Optical sensors’ detectability, Large aperture optics have been widely used. But the deform of the opto-mechanical system has been induced by heavy deadweight of the large aperture optical elements and by the change of environment temperature could lead to the attenuation of the Infrared and Electro-Optical sensors’ detectability. For weakening the influence of deadweight deform and temperature change, people utilize the fruits of adaptive optical technology achieved the unattenuated performance of Electro-Optical sensors. A infrared adaptive optical system based on Hartmann-Shack wave-front sensor is designed. The wave-front sensor has adopted in the visual spectrum for lower cost and higher precision. So the fore large aperture telescope must work in the dual waveband such as middle-infrared wavelength and visual wavelength. The final dual-waveband telescope achieved 4’ collimation at the visual wavelength and 10’ collimation at the middle-infrared wavelength. The dual-waveband optical system for IR adaptive system achieved high-resolution middle-infrared imaging and real-time visual-waveband wave-front distortion measuring.
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