A system for computational imaging spectroscopy to provide compact and lightweight design, as well as large field of view of an object to be captured. The system includes imaging components, and computational device. The imaging components includes lens assembly, a fixed or variable-diameter aperture, spectral filter array and imaging sensor. The lens assembly provides wide angle of view, image-side telecentricity, and further may correct for longitudinal chromatic aberrations. The lens assembly may not provide correction of lateral chromatic aberrations. Furthermore, the lens assembly provides image-space telecentricity so as to chief rays are incident perpendicular to image sensor. The lens assembly may produce different chromatic aberrations pattern for each wavelength within the spectral range of interest. The pass-band nanofilter array is configured to filter a plurality of specific bands of light reflected from the imaged object and further produces a plurality of spatio-spectral samples of the imaged object projected onto the photosensitive pixels of imaging sensor. The computational device reconstructs complete spectral cube within the spectral range of interest, and further enables the computation of object reflectance at each pixel of the captured image from the plurality of spatio-spectral samples registered by the imaging sensor.

The zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side, a positive first lens unit (LU), a negative second LU, a positive third LU, and a rear lens group including at least one LU. The zoom lens further includes an aperture stop. A LU arranged on image side of aperture stop moves during zooming. The first LU consists of at least two positive lenses (TPL), and two negative lenses (TNL). An average partial dispersion ratio (APDR) of TNL, APDR of TPL having highest refractive powers of at least TPL, an average Abbe number (AAN) of TNL, AAN of TPL, larger one of Abbe numbers of TNL, smaller one of Abbe numbers of TPL, focal lengths of first and second LUs, a distance from an optical surface closest to object side to image plane, and a focal length of zoom lens at a telephoto end are each appropriately set.

An imaging lens is provided with: a first lens with negative power; a second lens with negative power; a third lens with positive power; and a fourth lens with positive power. The cemented fourth lens is formed from an object side lens with negative power and an image side lens with positive power. The thickness of a resin adhesive layer that bonds the object side lens and the image side lens is 20 m or greater on the optical axis, and when Sg1H is the amount of sag in the image side lens surface of the object side lens and Sg2H is the amount of sag in the object side lens surface of the image side lens. The bonding operation is easy without damage occurring to the cemented surfaces, with a design that takes into account thickness of the resin adhesive layer; therefore various forms of aberration can be corrected.

An orthoscopic, apochromatic lens is suitable for deployment such as on aerial platforms provides distortion less than 0.2% over a full field of view of more than 60 with F # less than 6.5 and focal length greater than 3, and in embodiments greater than 5. Embodiments are apochromatic from 500 to 950 nm to within 7 microns. Embodiments have an overall length of less than 7. The lens includes five optical groups with an aperture stop between the second and third groups. The optical groups have one, one, two, one and one optical element each, as ordered from the object to the image plane, and have positive, negative, positive, positive, and negative optical powers, respectively. Embodiments are telephoto. In embodiments the focal length is temperature invariant within 0.0015 inches from 0 C. to 40 C.

The present disclosure provides an optical imaging system of a camera lens assembly. The optical imaging system is sequentially provided with a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens from an object side to an imaging side along an optical axis. The first lens has a positive refractive power, an object side surface and an image side surface of the first lens are both convex surface. An object side surface of the second lens is a convex surface, and an image side surface of the second lens is a convex surface. The third lens has a negative refractive power and the fourth lens has a negative refractive power. An effective focal length of the first lens f1, an effective focal length of the fourth lens f4, and an effective focal length of the optical imaging system f satisfy: 0.8<(f1+f4)/f<0.

An optical imaging system includes five lens elements, the five lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element having positive refractive power; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element having positive refractive power; a fourth lens element having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens element having negative refractive power.

A high magnification MWIR continuous zoom optical system is described herein that consists of the following components: a front detachable extender group, a fixed group for focusing incoming radiation, three moving groups for zooming and generating an intermediate image and a relay group. The mentioned optical system has the ability to work with MWIR radiation (3-5 m) and generate a thermal image from the gathered radiation. The system also has the ability to zoom continuously in a wide variable focal length range with a high magnification ratio of 20. With the use of a cooled detector, the combined system allows its user to be able to receive high quality thermal images in all FOV configurations.

A lens assembly includes a first lens group, a second lens group and an aperture. The first lens group includes two lenses with refractive power. The second lens group with a positive refractive power includes at least two lenses with refractive power. The aperture is disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. The lens assembly includes 5 to 8 lenses with refractive power. D1 is the diameter of the lens surface of the first lens group farthest from the second lens group. LT is the length on the optical axis of the lens from the lens surface farthest from the imaging plane of the lens assembly to the lens surface closest to the imaging plane of the lens assembly. IMH is the maximum imaging height of lens assembly on the imaging plane, wherein the lens assembly satisfies conditions: 3.5<LT/IMH<6, 0.65<D1/LT<0.98.

An optical imaging system includes five lens elements, the five lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element having positive refractive power; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element having positive refractive power; a fourth lens element having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens element having negative refractive power.

An anamorphic three-element objective lens projects a plurality of beams of different wavelengths and different diameters into an elongated focal spot in a working-plane. In one transverse direction of the lens, the beams are tightly focused with equal beam-waist widths in the working-plane, defining a height of the focal spot. In another transverse direction, the different beams are focused progressively beyond the working-plane such that the beams have a common beam-width in the working-plane, thereby defining a width of the focal spot.