7 March 2023 Research on precision alignment method of a five-mirror optical derotator system
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Abstract

A five-mirror optical derotator system is used in the Accurate Infrared Magnetic System solar telescope by virtue of its polarization-free and superior real-time performance. The derotator system can compensate image rotation during tracking observation. The system consists of five flat mirrors with their normal vectors noncoplanar. Due to the complicated spatial positions of mirrors, it is challenging to align the system with high accuracy. We analyze parallelism and concentricity characteristic of derotator system by matrix transformation and propose a compensation alignment method from multivariables perturbation simulation. This method reduces degrees of freedom for alignment from 10 to 4, which greatly simplifies the installation and adjustment process. Based on the above simulation, the alignment experiment has been conducted successfully with the parallelism and concentricity meeting the requirements. Through theoretical analysis and experimental verification, the proposed method is reasonable and provides an efficient alignment solution for this kind of five-mirror optical derotator system.

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Yu Lei, Songbo Xu, Mingqiang Cao, Caiwen Ma, Zhanjun Duan, Xing Fu, Hua Li, and Shifa Kang "Research on precision alignment method of a five-mirror optical derotator system," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 9(1), 014004 (7 March 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.9.1.014004
Received: 19 October 2022; Accepted: 14 February 2023; Published: 7 March 2023
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KEYWORDS
Mirrors

Optical alignment

Reticles

Autocollimation

Incident light

Calibration

Polarization

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