Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 40, Issue 15, 1522001(2020)

Method for Expanding Field-of-View of Cassegrain System with Computational Imaging

Hanqing Zheng, Qingfeng Cui*, Yang Hu, Lin Sun, Xudong Gao, and Yu Guo
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  • School of Opto-Electronic Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China
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    The structure of Cassegrain optical system severely limits its field of view (FOV). Generally, additional optical elements are needed to expand the FOV, but this approach leads to a complicated structure and does not facilitate a miniaturized and lightweight optical system. In this paper, a new method to expand the FOV of Cassegrain system using computational imaging was proposed. First, the structural parameters of the system were optimized to control the aberrations; then, a point spread function model was established; finally, a deconvolution algorithm was used to process the image. Eventually, the FOV of the Cassegrain system could be expanded using the structure that only comprised primary and secondary mirrors. A simulation experiment was conducted wherein a Cassegrain system with an F of 5.5 and 470-mm focal length was developed. The experimental result shows that in the FOV of 1.5°, the off-axis FOV modulation transfer function of the processed image is approximately improved by 0.2 at 20 lp/mm. Moreover, the quality of the image is significantly improved.

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    Hanqing Zheng, Qingfeng Cui, Yang Hu, Lin Sun, Xudong Gao, Yu Guo. Method for Expanding Field-of-View of Cassegrain System with Computational Imaging[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2020, 40(15): 1522001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optical Design and Fabrication

    Received: Mar. 17, 2020

    Accepted: May. 6, 2020

    Published Online: Aug. 14, 2020

    The Author Email: Cui Qingfeng (qf_cui@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202040.1522001

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