The invention discloses a compact long
focal length four-mirror
telescope objective. According to the incident direction of light, the
telescope objective is composed of an elliptical main mirror, a
hyperboloid secondary mirror, an elliptical third mirror, an elliptical fourth mirror, a
plane mirror and a focal plane in order. The main mirror, the
secondary mirror, the third mirror and the fourthmirror are in a main
optical axis symmetrical structure, and view field imaging without secondary masking face is formed. An aperture diaphragm is located at the main mirror, and the fourth mirror islocated at a primary
real image formed by the main mirror and the
secondary mirror. After incident light from a scene is reflected by the main mirror and the secondary mirror, an intermediate
real image is formed in front of the third mirror. After the light is reflected by the third mirror and the fourth mirror, the light passes through the center hole of the third mirror without block, and the light is imaged at the focal plane through a
plane mirror turning
optical path. According to the invention, view field imaging without secondary masking face is realized by reasonably controlling the
exit pupil position and the distance between the mirrors; and the
system has the advantages of long
focal length, long short
barrel, small size, compact structure, good
imaging quality, low processingcost and the like, and meets the needs of light and small optical systems in imaging fields such as space
remote sensing video cameras and
imaging spectrometer front objectives.