Optical design and performance analysis of a 25-m class telescope with a segmented spherical primary

Mette Owner-Petersen

doi:10.1117/12.269087

21 March 1997 Optical design and performance analysis of a 25-m class telescope with a segmented spherical primary

Mette Owner-Petersen

Proceedings Volume 2871, Optical Telescopes of Today and Tomorrow; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.269087
Event: Optical Telescopes of Today and Tomorrow, 1996, Landskrona/Hven, Sweden

Abstract

The basic design and an analysis of the performance possibilities of a 25 m class optical telescope are presented here. The configuration consists of a 28 m segmented spherical primary M1 followed by three highly aspherical corrective mirrors M2, M3 and M4 which also deviates from Cartesian shape. The construction is axially folded. The combination M1- M2 forms a focus close to a coupling aperture in M4, and the combination M3-M4 relays this focus to the final focus behind M1 and M3. The combination M2-M3 images M1 on the segmented M4 to be used for correction of wavefront errors induced by M1 form errors arising from gravitational sag and windbuffeting. Several types of aspherical figuring of M2, M3 and M4 all resulting in a field performance better than characterized by a rms spot radius smaller than 0.1 arcseconds within a full FOV of 21 arcminutes are presented.

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Mette Owner-Petersen "Optical design and performance analysis of a 25-m class telescope with a segmented spherical primary", Proc. SPIE 2871, Optical Telescopes of Today and Tomorrow, (21 March 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.269087

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