Decentered field lens with tilted focal plane array

Details Decentered field lens with tilted focal plane array Decentered field lens with tilted focal plane array

2005-03-01

2005-03-01

Mai, Huy (Department: 2873)

Optical: systems and elements

Lens

With light limiting or controlling means

C359S619000, C359S620000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06862147

ABSTRACT:
An IR sensor device in accordance with the present invention includes an optical train, a focal plane array (FPA) for receiving incoming ray bundles that have passed through the optical train, and a decentered plano-convex field lens positioned therebetween the filed lens is decentered in that it is positioned so that the optical axis intersects the fields lens at an offset distance from the geometric center of the lens perimenter. When the field lens is positioned in this manner, optical ray bundles that pass through the field lens establish a revised image plane. To compensate for the revised image plane, the FPA is titled until the FPA is co-planar with the revised image plane. Any reflected optical ray bundles are refracted as they pass back through the field lens and directed away from the pupil, to prevent reflected optical ray bundles from entering the optical train and leaving the sensor as an IR retro-reflection during operation of the device.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5526166 (1996-06-01), Genovese
patent: 5844727 (1998-12-01), Partlo
patent: 20010050896 (2001-12-01), Hajjar et al.

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