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Also in this three-lens objective, the median and rear lenses are closely adjacent. Such closely adjacent me
dian and rear lenses in three-lens objectives result in an
prising three lenses and having a relatively long front focal length and a relatively short back focal length,
each of said lenses having a front surface facing an object and a rear surface facing an image of said object. Preferably, the invention relates to a three-lens objec
increase of the overall length. The DEA-2,743,175 describes an infrared objective which consists of three mutually adjustable optical ele
ments. The median and the rear optical elements, in turn, consist of two lenses each. The spacing of the median and rear optical elements is smaller than the
images having very small image points are to be formed 15 one. The all over an extended image area. A possible use of such
objectives is in an infrared seeker wherein the image of
a ?eld of view if formed on a two-dimensional, image
tive for infrared spectral ranges, the objective having lenses of infrared-transparent materials. The latter type of objectives is used, when infrared
detecting sensor and the picture elements (pixels) de tected by the sensor are subjected to image processing.
The following specifications of the objective are re
quired for such uses: The spectral range should lie between the wave
patent) describes a four-lens infrared objective of the Petzval type. A paper by J. Kross and R. Schuhmann Zur Korrek
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DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the invention to provide a high-reso lution objective with a minimum of lenses and with
The objective should have minimum overall length, the overall length of the objective being the spacing
between the front surface of the objective and the image
relatively low dispersion, a median one of said lenses consists of a second material of relatively larger disper
sion, and a rear one of said- lenses consists of a material
plane
BACKGROUND ART
said front lens has positive power, said median lens has negative power, and said rear lens has positive power, The DEA-1,472,189 (German laid-open patent appli cation) describes a three-lens objective for infrared the spacing between said front lens and said median having two positive power lenses made of silicon and a lens is substantially smaller than the distance between negative power lens made of germanium therebetween. 45 said median lens and said rear lens, and The two positive power lenses are menisci. The con each of said lenses has at least one aspherical surface. cave sides of these menisci face the shorter back or front As can be gathered from the prior art discussed here focal length, respectively. inbefore, the spacing of the three lenses in three-lens
front lens and the median lens and between the median lens and the rear lens are approximately equal. All
jective for infrared. The three-lens objective comprises 55. lens, aberrations, in particular astigmatism and coma, are corrected by this median lens to a lesser degree. The a single, positive power front lens in the form of a me
niscus and made of germanium, and a rear lens element composed of two adjacent meniscus lenses convex towards the front. At least one of these rear meniscus lenses consists of germanium, as well. The rear surface 60
median lens, virtually, corrects chromatic aberrations only. The invention is based on the discovery, that placing the median lens closer to the front lens, whereby the spacing between the median lens and the front lens is noticeably smaller than the spacing of the
rear lens from the median lens, is feasible, if at least one
of the surfaces of each lens is aspherical. By this ar rangement of the lenses, in turn, reduced overall length as compared with prior art three-lens objectives is achieved.
Modi?cations of the invention are subject matter of