Title

Generalized Wolter Type I Design For The Solar X-Ray Imager (Sxi)

Abstract

The off-axis aberrations of the classical Wolter Type I X-ray telescope consisting of a confocal paraboloid and hyperboloid severely limit the useful angular field that can be imaged onto a flat detector. A family of alternative designs based on two hyperboloids has been developed that improves the wide-field imaging performance by aberration balancing. A particular member of this family, designated as H-T#17, has been selected for use in the SXI instrument. The development of the SXI optical prescription and its defining parameters are first presented, then detailed optical performance predictions are compared to those of the SXI baseline design.

Publication Date

12-1-1999

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

3766

Number of Pages

173-183

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

0033336538 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0033336538

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