Zoom lens design for tilted objects

Robert M. Malone; Daniel K. Frayer; Morris I. Kaufman; Heather R. Leffler; Kevin D. McGillivray; Alfred Meidinger; David H. Phillips

doi:10.1117/12.2186868

3 September 2015 Zoom lens design for tilted objects

Robert M. Malone, Daniel K. Frayer, Morris I. Kaufman, Heather R. Leffler, Kevin D. McGillivray, Alfred Meidinger, David H. Phillips

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Proceedings Volume 9580, Zoom Lenses V; 958008 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2186868
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

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When a zoom lens views a tilted finite conjugate object, its image plane is both tilted and distorted depending on magnification. Our camera image plane moves with six degrees of freedom; only one moving doublet lens is required to change magnification. Two lens design models were analyzed. The first required the optical and mechanical axes to be collinear, resulting in a tilted stop. The second allowed the optical axis to be tilted from the lens mechanical axis with an untilted stop moving along the mechanical axis. Both designs produced useful zoom lenses with excellent resolution for a distorted image. For both lens designs, the stop is anchored to the moving doublet and its diameter is unchanged throughout magnification changes. This unusual outcome allows the light level at each camera pixel to remain constant, independent of magnification. As-built tolerance analysis is used to compare both optical models. The design application is for proton radiography. At the end of an accelerator, protons exit an aluminum vacuum window producing a shadowgraph image onto an LYSO (lutetium yttrium orthosilicate) scintillator. The 5″ square scintillator emission reflects off a pellicle and is collected by the zoom lenses located 24″ away. Four zoom lenses will view the same pellicle at different alpha and beta angles. Blue emission from the scintillator is viewed at an alpha angle of –14° or –23° and beta angles of ±9° or ±25°. The pellicle directs the light backwards to a zone where adequate shielding of the cameras can be achieved against radiation scattered from the aluminum window.

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Robert M. Malone, Daniel K. Frayer, Morris I. Kaufman, Heather R. Leffler, Kevin D. McGillivray, Alfred Meidinger, and David H. Phillips "Zoom lens design for tilted objects", Proc. SPIE 9580, Zoom Lenses V, 958008 (3 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2186868

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Zoom lenses

Cameras

Scintillators

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Radiography

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