Optical system for wide angle ir imager
CA 1288623 C · Owner: Noble, Milton Lawrence · Inventors: Noble, Milton Lawrence
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The invention relates to a high performance optical system for a wide angle IR imager requiring a cryogenic environment for the IR detector array. The wide angle requirement makes it necessary for one lens to be behind a "cold aperture" within the cryogenic environment where focusing is difficult and performance of the aperture reduced. These objectives are minimized by use of a telecentric lens pair, one member of which is within the cryogenic environment. The telecentric lens pair refocuses the primary image formed by an objective lens, permiting a high quality image to be formed on the IR detector array. The usual errors in positioning the internal lens, which might impair the quality of …
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- Granted September 10, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended September 10, 2008.
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