Large-deviation achromatic risley prisms pointing systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4773, Issue , 2002, Pages 123-131

  Lacoursière, Jean ^a   Doucet, Michel ^a   Curatu, Eugene ^a   Savard, Maxime ^a   Verreault, Sonia ^a   Thibault, Simon ^a   Chevrette, Paul ^b   Ricard, BenoÎt ^b  

^a INO   (Canada)

^b R and D pour la dèfense Canada Valcartier ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Achromatic prism; Infrared imagers; Risley prisms; Rotating prisms; Thermal imagers

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFRARED IMAGING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RAY TRACING; SAPPHIRE; SCANNING; ZINC SULFIDE;

ACHROMATIC PRISMS; CHROMATIC ABERRATIONS;

PRISMS;

EID: 0036425164     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.469192     Document Type: Article

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