Miniaturization of a SWIR hyperspectral imager

Christopher P. Warren; William Pfister; Detlev Even; Arleen Velasco; Selwyn Yee; David Breitwieser; Joseph Naungayan

doi:10.1117/12.883325

25 May 2011 Miniaturization of a SWIR hyperspectral imager

Christopher P. Warren, William Pfister, Detlev Even, Arleen Velasco, Selwyn Yee, David Breitwieser, Joseph Naungayan

Proceedings Volume 8020, Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications VIII; 802002 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883325
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

A new approach for the design and fabrication of a miniaturized SWIR Hyperspectral imager is described. Previously, good results were obtained with a VNIR Hyperspectral imager, by use of light propagation within bonded solid blocks of fused silica. These designs use the Offner design form, providing excellent, low distortion imaging. The same idea is applied to the SWIR Hyperspectral imager here, resulting in a microHSI^TM SWIR Hyperspectral sensor, capable of operating in the 850-1700 nm wavelength range. The microHSI spectrometer weighs 910 g from slit input to camera output. This spectrometer can accommodate custom foreoptics to adapt to a wide range of fields-of-view (FOV). The current application calls for a 15 degree FOV, and utilizes an InGaAs image sensor with a spatial format of 640 x 25 micron pixels. This results in a slit length of 16 mm, and a foreoptics focal length of 61 mm, operating at F# = 2.8. The resulting IFOV is 417 μrad for this application, and a spectral dispersion of 4.17 nm/pixel. A prototype SWIR microHSI was fabricated, and the blazed diffraction grating was embedded within the optical blocks, resulting in a 72% diffraction efficiency at the wavelength of 1020 nm. This spectrometer design is capable of accommodating slit lengths of up to 25.6 mm, which opens up a wide variety of applications. The microHSI concepts can be extended to other wavelength regions, and a miniaturized LWIR microHSI sensor is in the conceptual design stage.

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Christopher P. Warren, William Pfister, Detlev Even, Arleen Velasco, Selwyn Yee, David Breitwieser, and Joseph Naungayan "Miniaturization of a SWIR hyperspectral imager", Proc. SPIE 8020, Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications VIII, 802002 (25 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883325

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