Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 50, Issue 14, 1410003(2023)

Application Design of Dewar Window for Cold Optical Large-Aperture Long-Wave Infrared Detectors

Haiyong Zhu1,2, Zhijiang Zeng1,2、*, Xue Li1,2, Peng Ji1,2, Junlin Chen1,2, Qi Zhang1,2, and Shaobo Luo1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
  • 2Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
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    Figures & Tables(14)
    Assembly structure design
    NSR curves. (a) NSR of different temperatures of window under 300 K blackbody target; (b) NSR of 200 K window under different temperatures of blackbody target
    Effect of window temperature on Dewar temperature field and stray light. (a) Dewar liquid nitrogen temperature field at the window room temperature; (b) Dewar simulation temperature field at window temperature 200 K; (c) temperature of cold screen and detector versus window temperature; (d) irradiance of the cold screen to the detector versus window temperature
    Dewar refrigeration assembly
    Dewar window deformation caused by aerodynamic pressure effect. (a) Inner surface; (b) outer surface
    Measured Dewar window deformation diagram under pressure field
    Dewar window deformation caused by aerodynamic pressure and temperature fields. (a) Inner surface; (b) outer surface
    Deformation curves of Dewar window with different radius. (a) 46 mm; (b) 50 mm; (c) 54mm; (d) 58 mm
    System MTF curve on the axial field without deformation
    • Table 1. Material properties of optical window

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      Table 1. Material properties of optical window

      MaterialElastic modulus /Pa

      Poisson’s

      ratio

      Thermal conductivity /

      (W·m-1·℃-1

      Coefficient of thermal expansion /℃

      Density /

      (kg·m-3

      Refractive index at 10 μmAbbe number in band 8-12 μm
      Ge10.3×10100.2660.26.1×10-653234.0031834
      ZnSe7.03×10100.28187.1×10-652702.406457
      ZnS7.45×10100.2916.77.6×10-640802.200223
      GaAs8.48×10100.31485.7×10-653153.2770107
    • Table 2. Material properties of shell

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      Table 2. Material properties of shell

      MaterialYield strength /MPaThermal conductivity /(W·m-1·K-1
      TC4(Ti6Al4V)8708.37
      4J2934316.53
      304L225.614.7
    • Table 3. First ten Zernike polynomial coefficients of inner and outer surface shapes under condition 3

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      Table 3. First ten Zernike polynomial coefficients of inner and outer surface shapes under condition 3

      CoefficientValue of outer surfaceValue of inner surface
      Z10.00024060.0002285
      Z2-2.297×10-6-2.675×10-6
      Z30.0001111-0.0001059
      Z43183×10-63.064×10-6
      Z51.937×10-61.859×10-6
      Z6-2.852×10-7-2.704×10-7
      Z7-2.128×10-9-1.742×10-9
      Z83.438×10-83.281×10-8
      Z9-8.153×10-9-7.768×10-9
      Z10-1.1452×10-9-8.751×10-10
    • Table 4. Variation of the system MTF of three fields at Nyquist frequency

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      Table 4. Variation of the system MTF of three fields at Nyquist frequency

      ConditionMTF at 16.67 lp/mm
      Axial field of view0.7 field of viewFull field of view
      MeridianSagittalMeridianSagittalMeridianSagittal
      Original0.50100.50100.48900.49520.48930.4878
      Condition 10.50020.50020.48930.49530.48850.4869
      Condition 20.49960.49960.48910.49440.48810.4867
      Condition 30.49850.49850.48400.49260.49330.4919
    • Table 5. Variation of wave aberration of primary wavelength based on deformation effect

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      Table 5. Variation of wave aberration of primary wavelength based on deformation effect

      ConditionRMS of wavefront error /λ
      Axial field of view0.7 field of viewFull field of view
      Without deformation0.01790.04440.0270
      Condition 10.01850.04550.0286
      Condition 20.01810.04370.0274
      Condition 30.01890.04680.0291
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    Haiyong Zhu, Zhijiang Zeng, Xue Li, Peng Ji, Junlin Chen, Qi Zhang, Shaobo Luo. Application Design of Dewar Window for Cold Optical Large-Aperture Long-Wave Infrared Detectors[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2023, 50(14): 1410003

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    Paper Information

    Category: remote sensing and sensor

    Received: Dec. 20, 2022

    Accepted: Feb. 27, 2023

    Published Online: Jul. 10, 2023

    The Author Email: Zeng Zhijiang (jonzeng@mail.sitp.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/CJL221549

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