Title

Alignment Induced Aberration Fields Of Next Generation Telescopes

Keywords

Aberration; Alignment; Telescopes

Abstract

There is a long list of new ground-based optical telescopes being considered around the world. While many are conventional Cassegrain and Ritchey-Chretien designs, some are from a family of 3-mirror offset field (but still obscured) optical forms that trace back to designs developed in the 1970s. The nodal theory of aberrations, developed in the late 1970s, provides valuable insights into the response of these systems to alignment errors and provides simple, linear solutions to real-time or at-assembly alignment algorithms. The application of nodal aberration techniques to the alignment of two and three mirror astronomical telescopes will be presented.

Publication Date

3-31-2008

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

6834

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.772010

Socpus ID

41149144185 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/41149144185

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