Optical system design with common aperture for mid-infrared and laser composite guidance

Xuanzhi Zhang; Zijian Yang; Ting Sun; Huamei Yang; Kunye Han; Bo Hu

doi:10.1117/12.2256433

28 February 2017 Optical system design with common aperture for mid-infrared and laser composite guidance

Xuanzhi Zhang, Zijian Yang, Ting Sun, Huamei Yang, Kunye Han, Bo Hu

Proceedings Volume 10256, Second International Conference on Photonics and Optical Engineering; 102560S (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256433
Event: Second International Conference on Photonics and Optical Engineering, 2016, Xi'an, China

Abstract

When the field of operation of precision strike missiles is more and more complicated, autonomous seekers will soon encounter serious difficulties, especially with regard to low signature targets and complex scenarios. So the dual-mode sensors combining an imaging sensor with a semi-active laser seeker are conceived to overcome these specific problems. Here the sensors composed a dual field of view mid-infrared thermal imaging camera and a laser range finder have the common optical aperture which produced the minization of seeker construction. The common aperture optical systems for mid-infrared and laser dual-mode guildance have been developed, which could meet the passive middle infrared high-resolution imaging and the active laser high-precision indication and ranging. The optical system had good image quality, and fulfilled the performance requirement of seeker system. The design and expected performance of such a dual-mode optical system will be discussed.

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Xuanzhi Zhang, Zijian Yang, Ting Sun, Huamei Yang, Kunye Han, and Bo Hu "Optical system design with common aperture for mid-infrared and laser composite guidance", Proc. SPIE 10256, Second International Conference on Photonics and Optical Engineering, 102560S (28 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256433

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