Title
`Aplanatic' Wolter Type I telescope design: Is there a practical advantage?
Abstract
For the relatively new field of X-ray/EUV astronomy, the Wolter Type-I and Wolter Type-II grazing incidence telescope designs are extensively utilized. `Aplanatic' versions of both types of telescopes are widely touted as being superior designs. However, scattering effects and other practical optical fabrication tolerances prevent these grazing incidence telescope designs from being near diffraction-limited at the X-ray/EUV wavelengths. Comparison of performance predictions for the classical versus `aplanatic' Wolter Type-I X-ray telescopes is discussed for the special case of the solar X-ray imager (SXI).
Publication Date
1-1-1998
Publication Title
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume
3444
Number of Pages
526-542
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.331273
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
0032302430 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0032302430
STARS Citation
Thompson, Patrick L. and Harvey, James E., "`Aplanatic' Wolter Type I telescope design: Is there a practical advantage?" (1998). Scopus Export 1990s. 3294.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus1990/3294