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Optical device for guiding radiation from an object scene to a detector using an optical link and method for guiding radiation from the object scene to the detector by an optical link

US9207045B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Diehl BGT Defence GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Reiner Eckhardt · Überlingen, DE
Joachim Barenz · Überlingen, DE
Hubert Kuppel · Stockach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 11, 2012
Grant date	Dec 8, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 23, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B27/644
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An optical device for guiding radiation from an object scene to a detector contains an alignment device for pivoting a field of view of the detector relative to a predetermined direction, a detector optical unit and an optical articulation for guiding the beam path from the pivoted field of view into the detector optical unit. In order to achieve a compact configuration of the device, the optical articulation has a reversing prism, in which beams running in the optical axis of the articulation are refracted towards a mirror surface of the reversing prism and are reflected by the reflection surface.

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