The present invention relates to a three-piece passive athermalized long-wave
infrared optical
system based on a refractive-diffractive
hybrid lens, belonging to the field of optical design imaging structures in the
infrared band; it includes a spherical cover, a first
meniscus positive lens, a
meniscus negative lens, and a second
meniscus positive lens.
Collimated light from infinity enters the first meniscus positive lens with the largest aperture, the meniscus negative lens, and the second meniscus positive lens in sequence through the spherical cover from the object plane, balancing the thermal difference,
chromatic aberration, and monochromatic aberration of the
system, and finally imaging on the
detector focal plane. The first meniscus positive lens is a refractive-diffractive
hybrid lens, and the side facing the
image plane is an aspherical diffractive surface. By using the lens with the largest aperture in the optical
system as a refractive-diffractive
hybrid chalcogenide glass lens, the present invention maximally utilizes the low
refractive index coefficient and good dispersion performance of
chalcogenide glass, as well as the
dispersion coefficient of the negative dispersion of the binary optical diffractive element and the large temperature compensation characteristic, solves the system
focal shift caused by temperature change, better achieves the purpose of
athermalization, and reaches the best imaging effect.