Optical design of an athermalised dual field of view step zoom optical system in MWIR

Doruk Kucukcelebi

doi:10.1117/12.2273177

23 August 2017 Optical design of an athermalised dual field of view step zoom optical system in MWIR

Doruk Kucukcelebi

Proceedings Volume 10375, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering XVIII; 103750S (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273177
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper, the optical design of an athermalised dual field of view step zoom optical system in MWIR (3.7μm – 4.8μm) is described. The dual field of view infrared optical system is designed based on the principle of passive athermalization method not only to achieve athermal optical system but also to keep the high image quality within the working temperature between -40°C and +60°C. The infrared optical system used in this study had a 320 pixel x 256 pixel resolution, 20μm pixel pitch size cooled MWIR focal plane array detector. In this study, the step zoom mechanism, which has the axial motion due to consisting of a lens group, is considered to simplify mechanical structure. The optical design was based on moving a single lens along the optical axis for changing the optical system’s field of view not only to reduce the number of moving parts but also to athermalize for the optical system. The optical design began with an optimization process using paraxial optics when first-order optics parameters are determined. During the optimization process, in order to reduce aberrations, such as coma, astigmatism, spherical and chromatic aberrations, aspherical surfaces were used. As a result, athermalised dual field of view step zoom optical design is proposed and the performance of the design using proposed method was verified by providing the focus shifts, spot diagrams and MTF analyzes’ plots.

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Doruk Kucukcelebi "Optical design of an athermalised dual field of view step zoom optical system in MWIR", Proc. SPIE 10375, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering XVIII, 103750S (23 August 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273177

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