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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/HKH.2008.19.4.287

Fabrication and Evaluation of Diameter 1 m Off-axis Parabolic mirror  

Yang, Ho-Soon (Space Optics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
Lee, Jae-Hyeob (Space Optics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
Jeon, Byung-Hyug (Space Optics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
Lee, Yun-Woo (Space Optics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
Lee, Kyoung-Muk (Optronics System Group, Samsung Thales Co. Ltd.)
Choi, Se-Chol (Image Information PEO, Agency For Defense Development)
Kim, Jong-Min (Image Information PEO, Agency For Defense Development)
Publication Information
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.19, no.4, 2008 , pp. 287-293 More about this Journal
Abstract
The collimator which makes a collimated beam, is an essential instrument for assembly and evaluation of telescopes. Recently, the Cassegrain type collimator has been widely used for its compact size as the focal length of high resolution cameras becomes longer. However, this kind of collimator has a disadvantage in that the secondary mirror is a heat source which can degrade the evaluation accuracy for an IR camera system. In this paper, we present the fabrication and measurement process for an off-axis parabolic mirror with the physical diameter pf 1 m, effective diameter 930 mm, and the focal length 6 m. After four months of works we obtained the final surface wave-front error of 30.4 nm rms ($\lambda$/138, ${\lambda}=4.2\;{\mu}m$), which is capable of evaluation of an IR camera as well as a visible camera.
Keywords
Telescope; Off-axis collimator; Infrared optics; Large optics;
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