Parametric circular aperture segmentation formalism

Jeong-Yeol Han; Sukmock Lee; Daewook Kim

doi:10.1117/12.2632865

3 October 2022 Parametric circular aperture segmentation formalism

Jeong-Yeol Han, Sukmock Lee, Daewook Kim

Proceedings Volume 12221, Optical Manufacturing and Testing XIV; 1222112 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632865
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

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Abstract

To minimize the artifacts in Point Spread Functions (PSFs) of space telescopes such as the 6 major spikes shown in the star image observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, which are caused by the primary mirror outer boundary and the gaps between segments, an alternative method to segmentize large circular telescope mirror is proposed. From the fact that the strong spikes are due to the parallel-ness of all linear boundary edges and gaps in the current hexagonal segmentation approach, the proposed segmentation methodology minimizes such parallel-ness. The proposed method comes with a set of formulas that can assist the design process including the systematic calculation of number of segments and the size of each segment to cover the entire mirror pupil area. Some example PSFs of a few possible segmented mirrors with the proposed formalism will be presented.

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Jeong-Yeol Han, Sukmock Lee, and Daewook Kim "Parametric circular aperture segmentation formalism", Proc. SPIE 12221, Optical Manufacturing and Testing XIV, 1222112 (3 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632865

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