Optical design of interferometric telescopes with wide fields of view.
The performance of wide-field multiple-aperture imaging systems is dominated by easily understood, low-order errors. Each aperture produces an individual image, each pair of apertures produces a set of fringes under a diffraction envelope, and the system bandwidth produces a coherence envelope. For wide-field imaging, each of these elements must be coincident in the image plane as the field angle changes. We explore the causes of image degradation, derive first-order rules for preserving image quality across field, and give an example design that enforces some of the rules to achieve a relatively wide-field interferometric imaging telescope.
Sabatke
Erin E
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Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Arizona 85721-0094, USA. esabatke@ball.com
Burge
James H
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Hinz
Philip
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