Author Affiliations
1Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan 610209, China2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China3School of Opto-Electronic Engineering, Changchun University Of Science and Technology, Changchun, Jilin 130022, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Paraxial ray-tracing model
Fig. 2. Real ray-tracing model
Fig. 3. Principle of ray sampling. (a) Field point sampling; (b) pupil point sampling
Fig. 4. Schematic of ideal normal calculation
Fig. 5. Design flow of freeform off-axis reflective optical system with large field-of-view
Fig. 6. Convergence curve of performance evaluation function
Fig. 7. Performance of initial system with conic surfaces. (a) Optical layout; (b) RMS spot diameter; (c) astigmatism; (d) coma
Fig. 8. Optical layout of initial systems at different stages. (a) Initial system with conic surfaces; (b) initial system with one freeform surface; (c) initial system with two freeform surfaces; (d) initial system with three freeform surfaces; (e) freeform initial system after iteration
Fig. 9. Performance of freeform initial system. (a) RMS spot diameter; (b) distortion grid
Fig. 10. Performance of designed freeform off-axis three-mirror system with large field-of-view. (a) Optical layout; (b) RMS spot diameter; (c) RMS wavefront error; (d) distortion grid; (e) MTFs
Parameter | Specification |
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Wavelength range | 8--12 μm | Focal length | 200 mm | F-number | 2 | Field of view | 30°×3° | Pixel size | 30 μm |
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Table 1. System specifications
Parameter | Range | Result |
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/mm | [-250, -150] | -153.5396 | /mm | [150, 250] | 150.0030 | /mm | [-700, -50] | -684.7247 | /mm | [-600, -50] | -186.5801 | /mm | [-600, -50] | -250.3525 | k1 | [-10, 10] | -1.5062 | k2 | [-10, 10] | 1.4190 | k2 | [-10, 10] | 0.2719 | /(°) | [20, 30] | 20.1834 | /(°) | [-35, -20] | -24.4260 | /(°) | [10, 20] | 10.4194 |
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Table 2. Range of configuration parameters and optimization results
Item | Primary mirror | Second mirror | Tertiary mirror |
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y | -5.1137×10-2 | -5.4110×10-2 | -3.6189×10-2 | x2 | 5.2745×10-5 | 3.7460×10-4 | 5.5739×10-4 | y2 | -1.8617×10-5 | -2.7492×10-4 | 4.3028×10-4 | x2y | 2.8671×10-7 | -4.0055×10-7 | -6.0778×10-8 | y3 | 3.9537×10-7 | 1.2279×10-6 | 1.1036×10-7 | x4 | -1.3673×10-9 | 1.7385×10-8 | 2.5519×10-9 | x2y2 | -3.1399×10-9 | 1.3595×10-8 | 3.7733×10-9 | y4 | -1.7176×10-9 | -6.1106×10-9 | 1.0958×10-9 | x4y | 1.4517×10-12 | -8.5103×10-11 | 7.3138×10-13 | x2y3 | -1.5300×10-12 | -1.1303×10-10 | 2.6900×10-12 | y5 | -3.1858×10-13 | -1.5388×10-11 | 2.1149×10-12 | x6 | 5.6636×10-15 | 0 | 2.3129×10-14 | x4y2 | 2.1556×10-14 | 0 | 3.0424×10-14 | x2y4 | 2.0234×10-14 | 0 | -2.4011×10-14 | y6 | 7.1070×10-15 | 0 | 1.9419×10-14 |
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Table 3. Polynomial coefficients of three freeform surfaces