Abstract

The compact video rate optical scanner (CVROS) is the product of several years of research and development at Kollmorgen Corp. Today it is a fully functional unique configuration for a compact IR scanner. A detailed discussion of the scanner concept can be found in Ref. ¹. Several state-of-the-art technologies made it possible to transform the CVROS from a concept into operational hardware including a computer-aided optical design. In particular, Optical Research Associates CODEV optical design package was used on a VAX 8350 to simulate and evaluate the scanner. This presentation discusses the unusual methods of system modeling employed and several of the analyses performed using CODEV. In the CVROS system, vertical scanning of the scene is done with an oscillating plane mirror, while a rotating disk, with a set of concave micromachined spherical mirrors around its periphery, provides scanning in the horizontal direction.

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