Abstract

The Narcissus effect occurs in IR optical systems that employ a cooled quantum detector and can degrade the image quality very severely. Therefore, it is essential that it is controlled in the design stage. A detailed description is given of how Narcissus can be calculated, by the use of a routine based on paraxial ray tracing, and reduced automatically and simultaneously with the system aberrations, by inclusion of its results in the merit function of a damped least-squares optimization program.

© 1996 Optical Society of America

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