Three-mirror anastigmatic telescope with a 60-cm aperture diameter and mirrors made of silicon carbide

Paul N. Robb; Roland R. Charpentier; Sergey V. Ljubarsky; Michael N. Tolstoy; Georgy V. Evteev; Yuri P. Khimitch

doi:10.1117/12.225288

23 October 1995 Three-mirror anastigmatic telescope with a 60-cm aperture diameter and mirrors made of silicon carbide

Paul N. Robb, Roland R. Charpentier, Sergey V. Ljubarsky, Michael N. Tolstoy, Georgy V. Evteev, Yuri P. Khimitch

Proceedings Volume 2543, Silicon Carbide Materials for Optics and Precision Structures; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.225288
Event: SPIE's 1995 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1995, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper describes a telescope with an aperture diameter of 60 cm, for which the mirrors and mirror mounts are being fabricated. The telescope is a three-mirror anastigmat with an offset field and consists of three powered aspheric mirrors made of silicon carbide and two folding flats made of silicon. The mirrors and mirror mounts are being fabricated at the Vavilov State Optical Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, as part of a collaborative program with the Lockheed Martin Palo Alto Research Laboratories. The designs of the mirrors and mounts, and the results of interferometric tests of the mirrors, are discussed.

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Paul N. Robb, Roland R. Charpentier, Sergey V. Ljubarsky, Michael N. Tolstoy, Georgy V. Evteev, and Yuri P. Khimitch "Three-mirror anastigmatic telescope with a 60-cm aperture diameter and mirrors made of silicon carbide", Proc. SPIE 2543, Silicon Carbide Materials for Optics and Precision Structures, (23 October 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.225288

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