In some applications the large field-of-view projector is demanded for special purpose. However, currently
available liquid-crystal-projectors generally have a field-of-view of 40 degree. These ordinary projectors can't meet
the special requirements. The ordinary method for solving the problem is to remove the original projection lens and
design a new fisheye lens whose field-of-view is large enough to meet the requirement. However, most current
advanced projector's lenses are integrated with the circuit controllers or circuit boards. In many situations it is
impossible to replace the lenses. In this paper, a new method, designing a new supplementary lens for the original
projector without destroying its structure, is presented. The field-of-view of the new system can be expanded to
180 degree. Since the exit beam of the original projector lens is similar to parallel beam, the entrance beam of the
supplementary lens is also parallel beam. That means, both the entrance and the exit beams of the supplementary
lens are parallel beams. So the supplementary lens can be treated as a telephoto system. In this paper, the focal
length of the original projector lens is 16.4 millimeter, the field-of-view is 42 degree, and the required field of view
is 180 degree. The new designed supplementary lens is a reverse Galilean telephoto system. The software Zemax is
used to design the system. Results show that the system is well designed and it can meet the actual requirements.
In order to make the projected scene cover the seeker's field-of-view promptly the conventional projection optical
systems used for hardware-in-the-loop simulation test usually depend on the 5 axes flight-motion-simulator. Those
flight-motion-simulator tables are controlled via servomechanisms. The servomechanism needs many axis position
transducers and many electromechanical devices. The structure and controlling procedure of the system are complicated.
It is hard to avoid the mechanical motion and controlling errors absolutely. The target image jitter will be induced by the
vibration of mechanical platform, and the frequency response is limited by the structural performance. To overcome
these defects a new infrared image simulating projection system for hardware-in-the-loop simulation test is presented in
this paper. The system in this paper consists of multiple lenses joined side by side on a sphere surface. Each single lens
uses one IR image generator or resistor array etc. Every IR image generator displays special IR image controlled by the
scene simulation computer. The scene computer distributes to every IR image generator the needed image. So the scene
detected by the missile seeker is integrated and uninterrupted. The entrance pupil of the seeker lies in the centre of the
sphere. Almost semi-sphere range scene can be achieved by the projection system, and the total field of view can be
extended by increasing the number of the lenses. However, the luminance uniformity in the field-of-view will be
influenced by the joint between the lenses. The method of controlling the luminance uniformity of field-of-view is
studied in this paper. The needed luminous exitance of each resist array is analyzed. The experiment shows that the new
method is applicable for the hardware-in-the-loop simulation test.
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