Wide-wide linear astigmatism free-three mirror system (LAF-TMS) enabling wide field-of-view and spectral bandwidth detection

Changgon Kim; Dohoon Kim; Jimin Han; Seunghyuk Chang; Woojin Park; Daewook Kim; Jun Ho Lee; John R. Peterson; Dae-Hee Lee; Soojong Pak

doi:10.1117/12.2663309

14 June 2023 Wide-wide linear astigmatism free-three mirror system (LAF-TMS) enabling wide field-of-view and spectral bandwidth detection

Changgon Kim, Dohoon Kim, Jimin Han, Seunghyuk Chang, Woojin Park, Daewook Kim, Jun Ho Lee, John R. Peterson, Dae-Hee Lee, Soojong Pak

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Proceedings Volume 12530, Advanced Optics for Imaging Applications: UV through LWIR VIII; 125300A (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2663309
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2023, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The conventional on-axis reflective systems suffer from a diffraction effect on the Point Spread Function (PSF) due to the secondary mirror obscuration. Meanwhile, the unobscured off-axis reflective systems’ imaging performance may be impacted by linear astigmatism aberration. The Linear Astigmatism Free-Three Mirror System (LAF-TMS) is a confocal off-axis reflective system that eliminates linear astigmatism and enables a wide Field of View (FoV). We present an enhanced design of LAF-TMS, called ”wide-wide”, which has an aperture of D=40mm, an effective focal length of f=75mm, and a wide FoV of 8.25°(Horizontal) × 6.21°(V ertical) combined with a wide spectral bandwidth capability suitable for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications. To evaluate the performance of this compact and fast optical system design, we use the Photon Simulator (PhoSim) to model physically accurate PSF under different conditions of the mirror surface, mechanical environment, and atmosphere. As a benchmark, we compare and analyze the PhoSim PSF results with other ray tracing software such as Zemax and CodeV. Additionally, PhoSim is capable of simulating infrared spectral imaging cases with a user-defined Spectral Energy Distribution (SED), intensity, and emissivity of each pixel. The comprehensive simulation results demonstrate the high performance of the LAF-TMS with a wide-wide FoV and multispectral capabilities.

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Changgon Kim, Dohoon Kim, Jimin Han, Seunghyuk Chang, Woojin Park, Daewook Kim, Jun Ho Lee, John R. Peterson, Dae-Hee Lee, and Soojong Pak "Wide-wide linear astigmatism free-three mirror system (LAF-TMS) enabling wide field-of-view and spectral bandwidth detection", Proc. SPIE 12530, Advanced Optics for Imaging Applications: UV through LWIR VIII, 125300A (14 June 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2663309

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