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Advanced optical designs of curved detectors-based two-mirrors unobscured telescopes

Authors :
Muslimov, Eduard
Hugot, Emmanuel
Lombardo, Simona
Roulet, Melanie
Behaghel, Thibault
Ferrari, Marc
Jahn, Wilfried
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

In the present paper we consider a family of unobscured telescope designs with curved detectors. They are based on classical two-mirror schemes -- Ritchey-Chretien, Gregorian and Couder telescopes. It is shown that all the designs provide nearly diffraction limited image quality in the visible domain for $.4^\circ \times .4^\circ$ field of view with the f-number of 7. We also provide a brief ghost analysis and point on special features of the systems with curved detectors. Finally, the detector surface shape obtained in each case is analyzed and its' technological feasibility is demonstrated.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1805.09071
Document Type :
Working Paper