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Monolithic afocal telescope
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | An afocal monolithic optical element formed of a shallow cylinder of optical material (glass, polymer, etc.) with fast aspheric surfaces, nominally confocal paraboloids, configured on the front and back surfaces. The front surface is substantially planar, and this lends itself to deposition of multi-layer stacks of thin dielectric and metal films to create a filter for rejecting out-of-band light. However, an aspheric section (for example, a paraboloid) can either be ground into a small area of this surface (for a Cassegrain-type telescope) or attached to the planar surface (for a Gregorian-type telescope). This aspheric section of the surface is then silvered to create the telescope's secondary mirror. The rear surface of the cylinder is figured into a steep, convex asphere (again, a paraboloid in the examples), and also made reflective to form the telescope's primary mirror. A small section of the rear surface (approximately the size of the secondary obscuration, depending on the required field of the telescope) is ground flat to provide an unpowered surface through which the collimated light beam can exit the optical element. This portion of the rear surface is made to transmit the light concentrated by the reflective surfaces, and can support the deposition of a spectral filter. |
| File Size | 610265 |
| Page Count | 9 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20110000767 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9b61jx2h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2010-11-30 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astronomy Cassegrain Optics Focusing Telescopes Optical Materials Parabolic Bodies Mirrors Optical Coatings Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Patent |
