Wavefront coding technology in the optical design of astronomical instruments

Rosario Porras; Sergio Vazquez-Montiel; J. Castro

doi:10.1117/12.592196

21 October 2004 Wavefront coding technology in the optical design of astronomical instruments

Rosario Porras, Sergio Vazquez-Montiel, J. Castro

Proceedings Volume 5622, 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.592196
Event: 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications, 2004, Porlamar, Venezuela

Abstract

The new astronomical instruments; spectrographs, cameras, focal reducers, telescopes, etc., requires to work in more and more wide spectral ranges and with very large fields of vision. Therefore, the chromatic aberrations and the field curvature are aberrations very difficult to correct and to balance in the process of optical design. For that problem, in the stage of optical design is necessary to add more optical components in the instrument, also we need to use more aspherical surfaces and we need more time of optical design, etc. In this work we propose to use the technique of wavefront coding using a cubic phase mask to obtain optical systems with an extended depth of field that corrects the chromatic aberration and the field curvature automatically. In this paper we present preliminary results of this technique.

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Rosario Porras, Sergio Vazquez-Montiel, and J. Castro "Wavefront coding technology in the optical design of astronomical instruments", Proc. SPIE 5622, 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications, (21 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.592196

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