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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1993
R Calvin Owen, Jr, Lincoln, MA (US);
Robert A Gallagher, Roanoke, VA (US);
Robert M Burley, deceased, late of Concord, MA (US);
by Juliet Mason, executrix, Newburyport, MA (US);
Litton Systems, Inc., Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Abstract
There is provided an improved night vision goggle having a housing containing an objective lens assembly, an image intensifier tube, a collimator assembly, a splitter member, and a pair of afocal telescopes. The optical axis of the afocal telescopes are offset from the optical axis of the collimator and objective lens assemblies. A pair of achromatic doublet lens assemblies are mounted side-by-side on the exit side of the collimator and near the entrance pupils of the telescopes. The optical axes of the doublet lens assemblies are coaxial with the optical axes of the telescopes. The achromatic doublet lens assemblies thus collect light from a sub-diameter, decentered aperture of the collimator assembly, and correct axial chromatic aberration in the telescopes.