With the advancement of aerospace technology, space debris generated by the collision and shedding of failed spacecraft is increasing, which threatens the safe operation of spacecraft in orbit seriously, and arouses people's attention to the detection of space debris. To achieve high-performance detection in dark environments, we propose a large relative aperture space-based detection optical system, which has a field of view of 16°, focal length of 182mm, F number of 1.52, and a working wavelength of 450~850nm. The system contains total 11 lenses, making the imaging performance more sensitive to temperature, therefore, we carry out thermal analysis for the system and use optical compensation method to achieve athermalized design. Finally, the system can work in the range of -10°C~+30°C, and the variation of the radius of the spot diagram with temperature is less than 3μm. In addition, we control the influence of stray light in the design process in order to observe bright and dark targets simultaneously. The numerical simulation results demonstrate that the veiling glare index of the system is 2.9%, which meets the requirement of dark object observation. The proposed optical system with large relative aperture and excellent imaging quality could be applied to accurate detection of space debris.
Infrared imaging system is widely used in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection because of the advantage of precise monitoring and anti-interference. However, it is difficult to simultaneously achieve large field of view (FOV) and light weight. In this paper, we propose a compact infrared panoramic annular lens (PAL) system with a large FOV and a three-piece simple structure, which contains three standard spherical lenses and has a FOV of (30°~100°) ×360°, total length of 51.6 mm, maximum diameter of 72 mm, focal length of 2.2 mm, and F number of three. The modulation transfer function of the system is higher than 0.7 at the Nyquist frequency, and F-theta distortion is controlled to less than 2%, which can meet the requirements of UAV detection. In addition, we use optical compensation method to achieve athermalized design in the range of -40°C~+80°C. The system possesses low sensitivity in tolerance, therefore we design a straight-tube mechanical structure for the system to simplify the assembly process and ensure the assembly precision at the same time. The PAL system we proposed is easy to be carried by UAVs due to its features of large FOV and lightweight, which can achieve accurate detection, large-scale monitoring, target recognition and tracking in harsh environments. It has important application value in military, security monitoring, machine vision and other fields.
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