The Design Of Secondary Mirrors For Fast Spherical Primary Mirrors

William Swantner

doi:10.1117/12.940218

10 June 1987 The Design Of Secondary Mirrors For Fast Spherical Primary Mirrors

William Swantner

Proceedings Volume 0766, Recent Trends in Optical Systems Design and Computer Lens Design Workshop; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940218
Event: OE LASE'87 and EO Imaging Symposium, 1987, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

We developed a computer program that uses Newton's method to calculate the shape of a secondary mirror which corrects the spherical aberration of a spherical primary mirror. For each user selected ray, the program calculates the distance from the ideal surface to a user defined conic surface. A set of distances can be used as spline deformations in ACCOS V*, accelerating the optimization of the two mirror system by more than an order of magnitude.

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William Swantner "The Design Of Secondary Mirrors For Fast Spherical Primary Mirrors", Proc. SPIE 0766, Recent Trends in Optical Systems Design and Computer Lens Design Workshop, (10 June 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940218

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