Clear Align in Eagleville, Pa., is introducing the MirZ 8017 long-range midwave infrared MWIR zoom lens for MWIR cooled detectors in applications such as surveillance, intelligence, and border control.
The electro-optical lens can resolve small targets like lighted cigarettes at distances as far as 12 miles, and offers compensated performance over a continuous MWIR zoom range over focal lengths from 80 to 1365 millimeters.
Because of the infrared bandwidth, this lens works in conditions that stymie visible lenses: fog, smoke, haze, and air pollution, company officials say.
The MirZ 8017 is an IRZoom brand lens with a 17x continuous MWIR zoom capability with less than 0.65 percent distortion and resolution to 25 line pairs per millimeter.
Suitable for use with low-noise cooled detectors, the lens offers electronic MWIR zoom, focus, and thermal compensation calibrated over the its operating range so that focus is not lost as operating conditions are changed.
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