Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 32, Issue 10, 1022004(2012)

Design of Extra Wide Short Wave Infrared Spectral Imager′s Fore-Optics

Zhong Xing* and Jin Guang
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    To increase working efficiency of airborne short wave infrared (SWIR) push-broom spectral imagers and acquire wider coverage, a fore-optics with 90° field of view (FOV) is researched. A new-style tilted component reflective system is put forward to avoid descending of transmittance at long waveband in traditional refractive SWIR fore-optics working in 1~2.5 μm. Three-order aberrations correction of tilted component system is briefly introduced. Based on initial configuration solving, a 15 mm focal length, 1/3.5 relative aperture, 90° FOV reflective fore-optics with tilted components is designed, whose distortion is optimized while remain telecentric. Its average modulate transfer function (MTF) at Nyquist frequency is more than 0.68, and relative illumination of margin field achieves 88%. Besides, there is no transmittance descending caused by material absorption. Push-broom image with fore-optics′ distortion is simulated. The optical design can be applied in SWIR spectral imagers with wide FOV and enhance system′s detection sensitivity extremely.

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optical Design and Fabrication

    Received: Apr. 23, 2012

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Aug. 13, 2012

    The Author Email: Xing Zhong (ciomper@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/aos201232.1022004

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