The design & tolerancing of an optical testing system (OTS) presents a unique set of challenges not generally encountered during the typical opticaldesign process. The authors have spent the past six years develo...
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(纸本)0819454613
The design & tolerancing of an optical testing system (OTS) presents a unique set of challenges not generally encountered during the typical opticaldesign process. The authors have spent the past six years developing and using a series of optical systems designed to measure the surface figure & radius-of-curvature of various ultra-lightweight mirrors at 30 K. These mirrors were part of a technology development program to support NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The design of these systems required consideration of the following: (i) potentially large figure errors in the test mirror (due to gravity sag & cryo-distortion), (ii) cryo-shrinkage of the aperture and radius-of-curvature, (iii) figure changes due to the use of mirror actuators, and (iv) vibration between the OTS & the test mirror. In addition, an exhaustive tolerancing process was required for each system in order to reach a set of alignment tolerances that were achievable using the equipment available and within the test environment. The authors found many aspects of the OTS design process to be significantly different from the norm;at the same time, however, viewing the process as a typical opticaldesign problem often-times brought clarification. This paper will describe both the differences and the similarities observed between the design of an OTS as opposed to a traditional imaging system.
design examples are given for imaging spectrometer systems operating in the solar reflected spectrum. design considerations and procedures are outlined for incoherently and coherently coupled systems. The case of a pa...
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(纸本)0819450464
design examples are given for imaging spectrometer systems operating in the solar reflected spectrum. design considerations and procedures are outlined for incoherently and coherently coupled systems. The case of a partially coupled system is also examined and it is shown why it is generally to be avoided.
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Thibault, SINO
Opt Engn Div St Foy PQ G1P 4S4 Canada
Generally, a spectrometer uses a diffraction grating to spread the spectral components of a light incident on the diffraction grating on a one-dimensional detector. The detector is composed of pixels linearly distribu...
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(纸本)0819441554
Generally, a spectrometer uses a diffraction grating to spread the spectral components of a light incident on the diffraction grating on a one-dimensional detector. The detector is composed of pixels linearly distributed along a line. However, the diffracted light is not spread linearly on the detector which means that the Wavelength on pixel I is not linearly correlated with the wavelength on pixel 2. The resolution is therefore not constant for all the spectral range of the spectrometer. To know which pixel corresponds to which wavelength, a nonlinear calibration process must be applied to get a linear relation between the diffracted light position and the wavelength of this light. The new spectrometer that we present uses a special lens configuration name F-sin(theta) lens to provide a linear relation in the image plane between the pixel position and the wavelength of the light. The f-sin(theta) characteristic is defined as the difference in percent between the design position of the wavelength in the image plane and its ideal position, if the lens is perfect. The characteristic of the lens used in the spectrometer is better than 0.1%. The concept can also be used for WDM and DWDM applications.
We present three designs and tolerances of wide-field imagers (30x30 arc-minutes or larger) for astronomical surveying. Two infrared cameras (CPAPIR and PANORAMIX ii) were designed for the 0.8-2.4 mum band and a third...
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(纸本)0819450464
We present three designs and tolerances of wide-field imagers (30x30 arc-minutes or larger) for astronomical surveying. Two infrared cameras (CPAPIR and PANORAMIX ii) were designed for the 0.8-2.4 mum band and a third one (WIRCAM) for the visible and near-infrared band extending from 410 nm to 950 nm. The cameras are installed on the telescopes of the Canada-France-Hawaii (Hawaii, USA) and Mont Megantic Observatories (Quebec, Canada). The three cameras are compact, use only spherical refractive components and have an internal pupil accessible for insertion of filtering components. A Lyot stop must be used in the infrared camera for background rejection. For PANORAMIX ii, a set of filters is used at the internal pupil. Correction of the large off-axis aberrations generated by the telescopes, wide spectral coverage, material choices, cryogenic temperature and alignment were the main design challenges. Also, tolerancing was particularly critical for the infrared cameras because they are cryogenically cooled, thus forbidding adjustment of internal components. The cameras theoretical performances are presented in terms of point-spread function, encircled energy and distortion.
We present a purely mechanical means of producing highly concentric spherical lenses at the endfaces of optical fibers. The production process has two stages. First, conical lenses are produced in a grinding process t...
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We present a purely mechanical means of producing highly concentric spherical lenses at the endfaces of optical fibers. The production process has two stages. First, conical lenses are produced in a grinding process that ensures excellent concentricity. Then, the conical lenses are transformed to spherical lenses using a novel process called loose abrasive blasting. The cone grinding is carried out on a microgrinding machine, which has a sophisticated control system that enables the production of precision conical lenses. The blasting is carried out on a diamond blasting machine. Plots showing automatic centering performance of the microgrinding machine and scanning electron microscopy images of the conical and spherical lenses are presented. (c) 2005 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers.
In this paper we describe the design of a reflective / diffractive hybrid optical system, which features no obscuration, re-imagining system with 100% cold shield efficiency, 4 degrees of field of view, near diffracti...
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(纸本)0819428841
In this paper we describe the design of a reflective / diffractive hybrid optical system, which features no obscuration, re-imagining system with 100% cold shield efficiency, 4 degrees of field of view, near diffraction limited imaging quality, and working in the long wavelength infrared (LWIR) region of 8-12 microns.
Most imaging systems today include a mosaic detector array in the focal plane. opticaldesigners of astronomical telescopes typically produce a design that yields a superb on-axis aerial image in the focal plane, and ...
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Most imaging systems today include a mosaic detector array in the focal plane. opticaldesigners of astronomical telescopes typically produce a design that yields a superb on-axis aerial image in the focal plane, and detector effects are included only in the analysis of the final system performance. Aplanatic opticaldesigns (corrected for spherical aberration and coma) are widely considered to be superior to nonaplanatic designs. However, there is little merit in an aplanatic design for wide-field applications because one needs to optimize some field-weighted-average measure of resolution over the desired operational field of view (OFOV). Furthermore, when used with a mosaic detector array in the focal plane, detector effects eliminate the advantage of the aplanatic design even at small field angles. For wide fields of view, the focal plane is frequently despaced to balance field curvature with defocus thus obtaining better overall performance. We will demonstrate that including detector effects in the opticaldesign process results in a different optimal (nonaplanatic) design for each OFOV that is even superior to an optimally despaced aplanatic design. (c) 2006 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers.
It has been shown that the Admittance Diagram along with the Quarterwave Rule can be used in the design and characterization of optical thin film coatings. However, this same tool may be utilized in the design and cha...
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(纸本)0819406554
It has been shown that the Admittance Diagram along with the Quarterwave Rule can be used in the design and characterization of optical thin film coatings. However, this same tool may be utilized in the design and characterization of some microwave components as well. A simple design example of a Wilkinson power divider is presented to illustrate the utility of this optical technique for microwave circuit design and analysis.
Raman and infrared(IR)spectroscopy are powerful analytical techniques,but have intrinsically low detection *** have been three major steps(i)to advance the optical system of the light excitation,collection,and detecti...
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Raman and infrared(IR)spectroscopy are powerful analytical techniques,but have intrinsically low detection *** have been three major steps(i)to advance the optical system of the light excitation,collection,and detection since 1920s,(ii)to utilize nanostructure-based surface-enhanced Raman scattering(SERS)and surface-enhanced infrared absorption(SEIRA)since 1990s,and(iii)to rationally couple(i)and(ii)for maximizing the total detection sensitivity since *** surveying the history of SERS and SEIRA,we outline the principle of plasmonics and the different mechanisms of SERS and *** describe various interactions of light with nano/microstructures,localized surface plasmon,surface plasmon polariton,and lightning-rod *** coupling effects can significantly increase the surface sensitivity by designing nanoparticle–nanoparticle and nanoparticle–substrate *** the nano/microstructures have specific optical near-field and far-field behaviors,we focus on how to systematically design the macro-optical systems to maximize the excitation efficiency and detection *** enumerate the key opticaldesigns in particular ATR-based operation modes of directional excitation and emission from visible to IR spectral *** also present some latest advancements on scanning-probe microscopy-based nanoscale ***,prospects and further developments of this field are given with emphasis on emerging techniques and methodologies.
The conjugate null test is commonly used to test surface errors of conic mirrors. Unfortunately, its accuracy is limited by rigid body misalignment errors. This paper derives the misalignment aberrations for these err...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819415871
The conjugate null test is commonly used to test surface errors of conic mirrors. Unfortunately, its accuracy is limited by rigid body misalignment errors. This paper derives the misalignment aberrations for these errors.
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