In order to study the impact of the thermal environment on the optical performance of the Ha and White light
telescope(HWT), a thermo-optical experimental system is built test the optical performance of the HWT under a thermal
vacuum condition. This system is made up of four sub-systems: an optical system to be tested, a vacuum system, a
temperature measurement and control system, and a wavefront sensing system. The temperature conditions of the
thermo-optical testing are designed on the basis of the measurement and numerical simulation of the ground observing
condition. An integrated STOP test based on the HWT is performed. The optical performances of the HWT under
different vacuum degree and different thermal control conditions are tested using the wavefront sensing system. The
results show that when the temperature of the secondary mirror is below 40°C, the optical performance of HWT is about
λ/8, which satisfies the requirement of λ/6. The secondary mirror structure is the most effect to the system optical
performance, which is the key part improving HWT. After the analytical model of HWT is set up by using the finite
element analysis software MSC.PATRAN/NASTRAN, finite element based optical analysis (FEMOPT) software is
used to calculate the optical performance. The comparison of the temperature control condition simulation and
experimental results show that FEMOPT optical structural thermal integral analysis is reasonable.
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