Multitarget compounding technique based on dimpled mirror

Haili Hu; Baojun Zuo; Shouqian Chen; Hong Yu; Yang Gao; Hongming Zhao; Jian Du; Zhigang Fan; Hai Pang

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.11.113001

5 November 2012 Multitarget compounding technique based on dimpled mirror

Haili Hu, Baojun Zuo, Shouqian Chen, Hong Yu, Yang Gao, Hongming Zhao, Jian Du, Zhigang Fan, Hai Pang

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 11, 113001 (November 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.11.113001

Abstract

The multitarget compounding technique is key in an infrared hardware-in-the-loop simulation system. In this study, the beam-broadening theory and carefully designed experiments are presented to analyze a multitarget compounding system based on a dimpled mirror. By paraxial approximation of geometrical optics, the expression of broadened beamwidth of a dimpled-mirror two-mirror three-reflection concentric system was obtained as the function of system parameters. A multitarget compounding setup was designed and experiments were performed. Excellent matching results were achieved between the beamwidth theory and the experiments. Experimental results demonstrated that the beam-broadening theory is creditable and suitable to design the multitarget compounding system. The theory and experiments are beneficial to the future development and implementation of multitarget compounding technique.

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Haili Hu, Baojun Zuo, Shouqian Chen, Hong Yu, Yang Gao, Hongming Zhao, Jian Du, Zhigang Fan, and Hai Pang "Multitarget compounding technique based on dimpled mirror," Optical Engineering 51(11), 113001 (5 November 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.11.113001

Published: 5 November 2012

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