Optical System Design And Performance Of The Lockheed Sensor Test Facility (LSTF)

J. B.C. Fuller Jr.; J. R. Grammer

doi:10.1117/12.932067

30 December 1981 Optical System Design And Performance Of The Lockheed Sensor Test Facility (LSTF)

J. B.C. Fuller Jr., J. R. Grammer

Proceedings Volume 0288, Los Alamos Conf on Optics '81; (1981) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.932067
Event: Los Alamos Conference on Optics, 1981, Los Alamos, United States

Abstract

The advancing state-of-the-art for long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) sensors has created a need for increasingly sophisticated low-background sensor test facilities. A new low-temperature, low-background, optical target collimator system has been designed and built to meet these new sensor requirements. The design incorporates a Ritchey-Chretien off-axis optical system with an effective focal length of 500 in. and an aperture of 25 in. This optical system provides excellent high-resolution, diffraction-limited performance for wavelengths of 0.76 μm and longer, both on-axis and off-axis. It has a useful field of view in excess of ±0.5 deg. Two scan mirrors in the collimated beam provide a beam steering capability of 6 deg.

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J. B.C. Fuller Jr. and J. R. Grammer "Optical System Design And Performance Of The Lockheed Sensor Test Facility (LSTF)", Proc. SPIE 0288, Los Alamos Conf on Optics '81, (30 December 1981); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.932067

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