Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 38, Issue s1, 116002(2011)

An All-Reflective Optical System for the Modulation Transfer Function Measurement of Near-Infrared Focal Plane Arrays

Xu Zhonghua1,2、*, Wang Jing1, Zhao Longcheng2, Wang Peigang1, and Fang Jiaxiong1
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    To measure the modulation transfer function (MTF) of near-infrared InGaAs focal plane arrays (FPA), an all-reflective Offner optical system is designed and fabricated, which consists of two co-axial spherical mirrors, operating as a 11 imager with F/#=4. After optimization at the FPA working wavelength 1.7 μm, a nearly diffraction limited field of view (FOV) up to 8 mm×30 mm is obtained. The MTF at a space frequency of 20 lp/mm (referring to the 25 μm×25 μm device′s Nyquist frequency) is above 0.8 in the FOV. After fabrication and calibration of the optical system, a Zygo interferometer is used to check its performance, finding that the root mean square (RMS) of wavefront error is about 1/20 wave at 0.6328 μm, and the MTF@20 lp/mm (0.6328 μm), is above 0.93. Then the measured wavefront data is inputted into CODEV to calculate the MTF at 1.7 μm. The result shows that, the value of MTF @1.7 μm,20 lp/mm is still above 0.8.

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    Xu Zhonghua, Wang Jing, Zhao Longcheng, Wang Peigang, Fang Jiaxiong. An All-Reflective Optical System for the Modulation Transfer Function Measurement of Near-Infrared Focal Plane Arrays[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2011, 38(s1): 116002

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    Received: Jul. 11, 2011

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jan. 6, 2012

    The Author Email: Zhonghua Xu (xzh08@mail.sitp.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/cjl201138.s116002

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