Fixed-focus lens and apparatus integrating optical projection and image detection

• US 8,192,033 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2009
• Issued: 06/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Young Optics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Young Optics, Inc.
• Inventors: Chen, Jung-Yao, Chen, Hsin-Te
• Primary Examiner(s): Epps, Georgia Y
• Assistant Examiner(s): NAPHAS, RENEE D
• Application Number:
  US12/559,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20100231873A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• Field of Search: 353/98, 359726-736, 345/173, 345/175
• US Class Current: 353/98
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/06 Panoramic objectives; So-called "sky lenses" including panoramic objectives having reflecting surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/16 for use in conjunction with image converters or intensifiers , or for use with projectors, e.g. objectives for projection TV
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 17/08 Catadioptric systems used in non-imaging applications G02B19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 17/0816 off-axis or unobscured systems in which not all of the mirrors share a common axis of rotational symmetry, e.g. at least one of the mirrors is warped, tilted or decentered with respect to the other elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 17/0852 having a field corrector only
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 17/0896 with variable magnification or multiple imaging planes, including multispectral systems systems with only refractive elements G02B15/14
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/28 Reflectors in projection beam in illumination beam G03B21/2066

Abstract

A fixed-focus lens disposed between an object side and an image side is provided. The fixed-focus lens includes a reflector, a curved reflector, a first lens group, and a second lens group disposed in sequence from the object side to the image side. The first lens group includes two aspheric lenses. The second lens group includes a spherical lens and an aspheric lens, wherein the aspheric lens of the second lens group is closest to the image side in the second lens group. Besides, an effective focal length (EFL) of the fixed-focus lens is f, an EFL of the second lens group is f₂, and a clear aperture of the aspheric lens of the second lens group is D. The fixed-focus lens satisfies one of following conditions: 0.04<f/f₂<0.078 and 0.05<f/D<0.18. An apparatus integrating optical projection and image detection is provided.

Claims

1. A fixed-focus lens adapted to be disposed between an object side and an image side, the fixed-focus lens comprising:

a reflector disposed in a light path between the object side and the image side;

a curved reflector disposed in the light path between the reflector and the image side;

a first lens group disposed in the light path between the curved reflector and the image side and comprising a first lens and a second lens arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side, wherein each of the first lens and the second lens is an aspheric lens;

a second lens group disposed in the light path between the first lens group and the image side and comprising a spherical lens and an aspheric lens, wherein the aspheric lens of the second lens group is closest to the image side in the second lens group; and

a dichroic minor, disposed in the light path between the first lens group and the second lens group and adapted to transmit a non-visible light from the first lens group to the second lens group,

wherein an effective focal length of the fixed-focus lens is f, an effective focal length of the second lens group is f2, a clear aperture of the aspheric lens of the second lens group is D, and the fixed-focus lens satisfies at least one of following conditions;

0.04<

f/f2<

0.078 and 0.05<

f/D<

0.18.

2. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dichroic mirror is adapted to be passed through by the non-visible light from the first lens group, the non-visible light is transmitted to the second lens group, and a light axis of the first lens group and a light axis of the second lens group are not parallel to each other.

3. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the curved reflector is an aspheric reflector and has a negative refractive power, the first lens group has a negative refractive power, and the second lens group has a positive refractive power.

4. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first lens and the second lens both have negative refractive powers and the aspheric lens of the second lens group has a positive refractive power.

5. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first lens is a convex-concave lens with a convex surface facing the object side and the second lens is a biconcave lens.

6. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein a distance from the first lens group to the second lens group is T12 and 1.8<

T12/f2<

4.5.

7. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second lens group comprises a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side, refractive powers of the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens are all positive, the sixth lens is the aspheric lens closest to the image side in the second lens group, and the fifth lens is an aspheric lens.

8. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 7, wherein the third lens is a biconvex lens, each of the fourth lens and the fifth lens is a concave-convex lens with a convex surface facing the object side, and the sixth lens is a concave-convex lens with a convex surface facing the image side.

9. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 7, further comprising an aperture stop, disposed in the light path between the third lens and the fourth lens.

10. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second lens group comprises a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side, refractive powers of the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens are all positive, the fifth lens is the aspheric lens closest to the image side in the second lens group, and the fourth lens is an aspheric lens.

11. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 10, wherein the third lens is a concave-convex lens with a convex surface facing the object side, the fourth lens is a convex-concave lens with a convex surface facing the object side, and the fifth lens is a concave-convex lens with a convex surface facing the image side.

12. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 10, further comprising an aperture stop disposed in the light path between the first lens group and the second lens group.

13. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second lens group comprises a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side, refractive powers of the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens, and the seventh lens are sequentially positive, positive, positive, negative, and positive, the seventh lens is the aspheric lens closest to the image side in the second lens group, and the fifth lens is an aspheric lens.

14. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 13, wherein each of the third lens and the fourth lens is a concave-convex lens with a convex surface facing the image side, each of the fifth lens and the seventh lens is a concave-convex lens with a convex surface facing the object side, and the sixth lens is a convex-concave lens with a convex surface facing the image side.

15. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 13, further comprising an aperture stop disposed in the light path between the fourth lens and the fifth lens.

16. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second lens group comprises a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side, refractive powers of the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens, the seventh lens, and the eighth lens are sequentially positive, negative, positive, negative, positive, and positive, the eighth lens is the aspheric lens closest to the image side in the second lens group, the fourth lens and the fifth lens together form a first double cemented lens, and the sixth lens and the seventh lens together form a second double cemented lens.

17. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 16, wherein each of the third lens, the fifth lens, the seventh lens, and the eighth lens is a biconvex lens, the fourth lens is a biconcave lens, and the sixth lens is a convex-concave lens with a convex surface facing the object side.

18. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 16, further comprising an aperture stop disposed in the light path between the third lens and the fourth lens.

19. The fixed-focus lens as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a reflecting element disposed in the light path between the first lens group and the second lens group.

20. An apparatus integrating optical projection and image detection, the apparatus comprising:

a fixed-focus lens adapted to be disposed between an object side and an image side so as to image an object beam from the object side on the image side, the fixed-focus lens comprising;

a reflector disposed in a light path of the object beam between the object side and the image side;

a curved reflector disposed in the light path of the object beam between the reflector and the image side; and

a first lens group disposed in the light path of the object beam between the curved reflector and the image side and comprising a first lens and a second lens arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side, wherein each of the first lens and the second lens is an aspheric lens;

a second lens group disposed in the light path of the object beam between the first lens group and the image side and comprising a spherical lens and an aspheric lens, wherein the aspheric lens of the second lens group is closest to the image side in the second lens group; and

a dichroic mirror disposed in the light path of the object beam between the first lens group and the second lens group, wherein an effective focal length of the fixed-focus lens is f, an effective focal length of the second lens group is f2, a clear aperture of the aspheric lens of the second lens group is D, and the fixed-focus lens satisfies at least one of following conditions;

0.04<

f/f2<

0.078 and 0.05<

f/D<

0.18;

a light detector disposed at the image side; and

an optical engine adapted to emit an image beam, wherein the image beam is transmitted to the dichroic minor, the dichroic mirror is capable of allowing the image beam to be transmitted to the first lens group, and the image beam is capable of passing through the first lens group and is reflected to the object side by the reflector and the curved reflector.

21. The apparatus integrating optical projection and image detection as claimed in claim 20, wherein the object beam is a non-visible light beam and the image beam is a visible light beam.

22. The apparatus integrating optical projection and image detection as claimed in claim 20, wherein the curved reflector is an aspheric reflector and has a negative refractive power, the first lens group has a negative refractive power, and the second lens group has a positive refractive power.

23. The apparatus integrating optical projection and image detection as claimed in claim 20, wherein the first lens and the second lens both have negative refractive powers and the aspheric lens of the second lens group has a positive refractive power.

24. The apparatus integrating optical projection and image detection as claimed in claim 20, wherein a distance from the first lens group to the second lens group is T12 and 1.8<

T12/f2<

4.5.