Significant optical engineering advances at the University of Arizona are being made for design, fabrication, and construction of next generation astronomical telescopes. This summary review paper focuses on the techn...Significant optical engineering advances at the University of Arizona are being made for design, fabrication, and construction of next generation astronomical telescopes. This summary review paper focuses on the technological advances in three key areas. First is the optical fabrication technique used for constructing next-generation telescope mirrors. Advances in ground-based telescope control and instrumentation comprise the second area of development. This includes active alignment of the laser truss-based Large Binocular Telescope(LBT) prime focus camera, the new MOBIUS modular cross-dispersion spectroscopy unit used at the prime focal plane of the LBT, and topological pupil segment optimization. Lastly, future space telescope concepts and enabling technologies are discussed. Among these, the Nautilus space observatory requires challenging alignment of segmented multi-order diffractive elements. The OASIS terahertz space telescope presents unique challenges for characterizing the inflatable primary mirror, and the Hyperion space telescope pushes the limits of high spectral resolution, far-UV spectroscopy. The Coronagraphic Debris and Exoplanet Exploring Pioneer(CDEEP) is a Small Satellite(Small Sat) mission concept for high-contrast imaging of circumstellar disks and exoplanets using vector vortex coronagraph. These advances in optical engineering technologies will help mankind to probe, explore, and understand the scientific beauty of our universe.展开更多
Dwell time plays a vital role in determining the accuracy and convergence of the computer-controlled optical surfacing process.However,optimizing dwell time presents a challenge due to its ill-posed nature,resulting i...Dwell time plays a vital role in determining the accuracy and convergence of the computer-controlled optical surfacing process.However,optimizing dwell time presents a challenge due to its ill-posed nature,resulting in non-unique solutions.To address this issue,several well-known methods have emerged,including the iterative,Bayesian,Fourier transform,and matrix-form methods.Despite their independent development,these methods share common objectives,such as minimizing residual errors,ensuring dwell time's positivity and smoothness,minimizing total processing time,and enabling flexible dwell positions.This paper aims to comprehensively review the existing dwell time optimization methods,explore their interrelationships,provide insights for their effective implementations,evaluate their performances,and ultimately propose a unified dwell time optimization methodology.展开更多
基金the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for their financial support of the development of the MODElens and its enabling alignment technologiesthe II-VI Foundation Block-Gift,Technology Research Initiative Fund Optics/Imaging Program。
文摘Significant optical engineering advances at the University of Arizona are being made for design, fabrication, and construction of next generation astronomical telescopes. This summary review paper focuses on the technological advances in three key areas. First is the optical fabrication technique used for constructing next-generation telescope mirrors. Advances in ground-based telescope control and instrumentation comprise the second area of development. This includes active alignment of the laser truss-based Large Binocular Telescope(LBT) prime focus camera, the new MOBIUS modular cross-dispersion spectroscopy unit used at the prime focal plane of the LBT, and topological pupil segment optimization. Lastly, future space telescope concepts and enabling technologies are discussed. Among these, the Nautilus space observatory requires challenging alignment of segmented multi-order diffractive elements. The OASIS terahertz space telescope presents unique challenges for characterizing the inflatable primary mirror, and the Hyperion space telescope pushes the limits of high spectral resolution, far-UV spectroscopy. The Coronagraphic Debris and Exoplanet Exploring Pioneer(CDEEP) is a Small Satellite(Small Sat) mission concept for high-contrast imaging of circumstellar disks and exoplanets using vector vortex coronagraph. These advances in optical engineering technologies will help mankind to probe, explore, and understand the scientific beauty of our universe.
基金supported by the Accelerator and Detector Research Program,part of the Scientific User Facility Division of the Basic Energy Science Office of the U.S.Department of Energy(DOE),under the Field Work Proposal No.FWP-PS032This research was performed at the Optical Metrology Laboratory at the National Synchrotron Light Source II,a U.S.DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by Brookhaven National Laboratory(BNL)under Contract No.DE-SC0012704This work was performed under the BNL LDRD 17-016“Diffraction limited and wavefront preserving reflective optics development.”This work was also supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province,China,under grant number 2022J011245.
文摘Dwell time plays a vital role in determining the accuracy and convergence of the computer-controlled optical surfacing process.However,optimizing dwell time presents a challenge due to its ill-posed nature,resulting in non-unique solutions.To address this issue,several well-known methods have emerged,including the iterative,Bayesian,Fourier transform,and matrix-form methods.Despite their independent development,these methods share common objectives,such as minimizing residual errors,ensuring dwell time's positivity and smoothness,minimizing total processing time,and enabling flexible dwell positions.This paper aims to comprehensively review the existing dwell time optimization methods,explore their interrelationships,provide insights for their effective implementations,evaluate their performances,and ultimately propose a unified dwell time optimization methodology.
