Design of unobscured reflective zoom system with three mirrors

A method for the design of an unobscured reflective zoom system with three mirrors is described. This method applies the vector aberration theory, which helps designers analyze third-order aberrations for optical systems with decentered and tilted surfaces. As the vector aberration theory presents the variation of third-order aberrations in asymmetric systems through analytic expressions, real ray tracing is unnecessary. Hence, the design with vector aberration theory is faster, and the analytic expressions are more comprehensive and intuitive. To demonstrate the practicability of the method, a design example is given, which shows that the presented method can guide designers achieve a good unobscured reflective zoom system with three mirrors.     

6倍制冷型中红外连续变焦光学系统设计

提出了一种求解变焦方程的新方法,并针对中红外320×256元制冷型焦平面阵列探测器,设计了一个3.7～4.8 μm波段的透射式红外连续变焦距光学系统,其F数恒定为2,最小焦距值为22 mm,变倍比为6。系统由变焦物镜和二次成像系统构成,包括7片硅、锗透镜,并引入非球面以校正系统各种轴外像差,同时利用两个平面反射镜折叠光路以减小尺寸。在空间频率16 lp/mm处和全焦距范围内,系统各个视场的光学调制传递函数均大于0.55;在接收面为30 μm×30 μm的探测器敏感元内,能量集中度大于80%。因此该系统具有较好的成像质量。