Abstract

An athermal ${360^ \circ} \times {(30^ \circ}{ - }{100^ \circ})$ and ${F}/{3.5}$ panoramic annular lens (PAL) system is designed. Through the optical mechanical thermal analysis results based on finite element analysis (FEA), it is expected that the system will have excellent performance under extreme temperature fluctuations. Simulation shows that the system is thermally insensitive in the temperature range from ${-}{40^ \circ}{\rm C}$ to 60°C, consistently providing great imaging capability with the modulation transfer function (MTF) value at 133 lp/mm greater than 0.3. The proposed design and analysis workflow contains an evaluation of thermal optical performance with a higher accuracy, thus having significance in future athermal optical design. We expect the designed PAL system to have a broad application prospect in the field of outdoor applications, including automatic navigation of vehicles and all-weather surveillance systems.

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