• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.29-35
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• 2009

Purpose: To develop a relay lens type scope with 70 mm eye relief. Methods: By using Sigma 2000 design program, we designed and manufactured a relay lens type scope with 70 mm eye relief, which is integrated after designing an objective part with relay lenses and an eyepiece part, respectively. Results: The characteristics of the relay lens type scope with 70 mm eye relief whch is designed and manufactured by methods, which integrate after respectively designing an object part with relay lenses and an eyepiece part, have the magnification of $+4{\times}$,the length from 1st lens to last lens of about 105 mm, the barrel diameter of 18mm, and the effective diameter of 13 mm. Also we know that the resolution line width is 275 cycles/rad at the 30% MTF value criterion. Conclusions: We could design and manufacture the relay type scope with 70 mm eye relief, the characteristics of which have the magnification of $+4.0{\times}$the MTF above 30% at 275 cycles/rad, and the length from 1st lens to last lens of about 105 mm.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.110-118
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• 2018

We have designed a mid-infrared optical system for an airborne electro-optical targeting system. The mid-IR optical system is a dual-field-of-view (FOV) optics for an airborne electro-optical targeting system. The optics consists of a beam-reducer, a zoom lens group, a relay lens group, a cold stop conjugation optics, and an IR detector. The IR detector is an f/5.3 cooled detector with a resolution of $1280{\times}1024$ square pixels, with a pixel size of $15{\times}15{\mu}m$. The optics provides two stepwise FOVs ($1.50^{\circ}{\times}1.20^{\circ}$ and $5.40^{\circ}{\times}4.23^{\circ}$) by the insertion of two lenses into the zoom lens group. The IR optical system was designed in such a way that the working f-number (f/5.3) of the cold stop internally provided by the IR detector is maintained over the entire FOV when changing the zoom. We performed two analyses to investigate thermal effects on the image quality: athermalization analysis and Narcissus analysis. Athermalization analysis investigated the image focus shift and residual high-order wavefront aberrations as the working temperature changes from $-55^{\circ}C$ to $50^{\circ}C$. We first identified the best compensator for the thermal focus drift, using the Zernike polynomial decomposition method. With the selected compensator, the optics was shown to maintain the on-axis MTF at the Nyquist frequency of the detector over 10%, throughout the temperature range. Narcissus analysis investigated the existence of the thermal ghost images of the cold detector formed by the optics itself, which is quantified by the Narcissus Induced Temperature Difference (NITD). The reported design was shown to have an NITD of less than $1.5^{\circ}C$.