Design of wide-field Nasmyth optics for a submillimeter camera

Toshihiro Tsuzuki; Tom Nitta; Hiroaki Imada; Masumichi Seta; Naomasa Nakai; Sigeyuki Sekiguchi; Yutaro Sekimoto

doi:10.1117/12.2055694

23 July 2014 Design of wide-field Nasmyth optics for a submillimeter camera

Toshihiro Tsuzuki, Tom Nitta, Hiroaki Imada, Masumichi Seta, Naomasa Nakai, Sigeyuki Sekiguchi, Yutaro Sekimoto

Proceedings Volume 9153, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; 91532U (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055694
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

We designed wide FoV (1 degree) Nasmyth optics which transformed the f/6 Nasmyth focus to f/1 at a 850GHz superconducting camera for a planning 10-m Ritchey-Chrétien telescope. This optical system consists of reflecting mirrors at room temperature and a refractive lens at 4K. It enables us to carry out wide FoV imaging observations at the diffraction limit (Strehl ratio < 0.89) with a more than 100,000 pixel camera equipped in a 10-m telescope. The size of this system is reasonably compact (whole size:1.6 mx3.3 mx2.6 m, cryogenic part:0.7 mx0.7 mx1.0 m). The cryogenic part of this system such as vacuum window, cryogenic lens and IR block filters can be made with existing technologies at reasonable cost. The optical system can extend to the millimeter wave and the terahertz domain.

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Toshihiro Tsuzuki, Tom Nitta, Hiroaki Imada, Masumichi Seta, Naomasa Nakai, Sigeyuki Sekiguchi, and Yutaro Sekimoto "Design of wide-field Nasmyth optics for a submillimeter camera", Proc. SPIE 9153, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 91532U (23 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055694

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