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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2021
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
David N. Sitter, Jr., Torrance, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A device includes an entrance pupil configured to receive light from a distant source. The device also includes an exit pupil configured to output the light to at least one component of an imaging system. The device further includes a plurality of lenses disposed optically between the entrance pupil and the exit pupil, where the lenses are grouped into an objective group and an eyepiece group. In addition, the device includes a housing surrounding the lenses and formed of a housing material. The lenses are formed of one or more lens materials selected based on a thermo-optical coefficient of the one or more lens materials and a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the housing material. The lens materials can be selected to have a thermo-optical coefficient that is closest to the CTE of the housing material among thermo-optical coefficients of a plurality of possible lens materials.