TY - JOUR
T1 - Optics technology for large-aperture space telescopes
T2 - From fabrication to final acceptance tests
AU - Trumper, Isaac
AU - Hallibert, Pascal
AU - Arenberg, Jonathan W.
AU - Kunieda, Hideyo
AU - Guyon, Olivier
AU - Stahl, H. Philip
AU - Kim, Dae Wook
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Technology Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) Optics/Imaging Program, through the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, the Post-processing of Freeform Optics project supported by the Korea Basic Science Institute, and the Friends of Tucson Optics (FoTO) Endowed Scholarships in Optical Sciences. The authors would also like to acknowledge the II-VI Foundation Block-Gift Program for helping support general deflectometry research in the Large Optics Fabrication and Testing (LOFT) group. The authors wish to thank the individuals who contributed figures and images of their research. We greatly appreciate your contributions to the field and for allowing us to use the images in our manuscript. We also want to thank the people who contributed to the editing and reviewing of the manuscript. A special thank you goes to Matthew Bolcar who helped edit and gave feedback on the article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Optical Society of America.
PY - 2018/9/30
Y1 - 2018/9/30
N2 - This review paper addresses topics of fabrication, testing, alignment, and as-built performance of reflective space optics for the next generation of telescopes across the x-ray to far-infrared spectrum. The technology presented in the manuscript represents the most promising methods to enable a next level of astronomical observation capabilities for space-based telescopes as motivated by the science community. While the technology to produce the proposed telescopes does not exist in its final form, the optics industry is making steady and impressive progress toward these goals across all disciplines. We hope that through sharing these developments in context of the science objectives, further connections and improvements are enabled to push the envelope of the technology.
AB - This review paper addresses topics of fabrication, testing, alignment, and as-built performance of reflective space optics for the next generation of telescopes across the x-ray to far-infrared spectrum. The technology presented in the manuscript represents the most promising methods to enable a next level of astronomical observation capabilities for space-based telescopes as motivated by the science community. While the technology to produce the proposed telescopes does not exist in its final form, the optics industry is making steady and impressive progress toward these goals across all disciplines. We hope that through sharing these developments in context of the science objectives, further connections and improvements are enabled to push the envelope of the technology.
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U2 - 10.1364/AOP.10.000644
DO - 10.1364/AOP.10.000644
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85055668138
SN - 1943-8206
VL - 10
SP - 644
EP - 702
JO - Advances in Optics and Photonics
JF - Advances in Optics and Photonics
IS - 3
ER -