The influence of temperature and pressure on primary mirror surface figure and image quality of the 1.2m colorful Schlieren system

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Songbo Xu ◽  
Peng Wang ◽  
Lei Chen ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Yong-jun Xie
2012 ◽  
Vol 466-467 ◽  
pp. 734-738
Author(s):  
Cheng Ming Li ◽  
Yi Fan Wang

Primary mirror’ surface figure is affected by supporting structure obviously. Especially for large-aperture telescope, the surface figure is significant because of primary mirror’ self-weight. For the requirement of the usage, it’s necessary to minimize the surface figure from self-weight by reasonable supporting scheme. The text optimized support point and force of radial support to minimize the surface figure by finite-element software. At the same time, it studied the relationship between support point and counterweight to reduce the weight of support structure. At last, it gave the optimal solution.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (23) ◽  
pp. 7993
Author(s):  
Meijun Zhang ◽  
Qipeng Lu ◽  
Haonan Tian ◽  
Dejiang Wang ◽  
Cheng Chen ◽  
...  

In order to improve the image quality of the aerial optoelectronic sensor over a wide range of temperature changes, high thermal adaptability of the primary mirror as the critical components is considered. Integrated optomechanical analysis and optimization for mounting primary mirrors are carried out. The mirror surface shape error caused by uniform temperature decrease was treated as the objective function, and the fundamental frequency of the mirror assembly and the surface shape error caused by gravity parallel or vertical to the optical axis are taken as the constraints. A detailed size optimization is conducted to optimize its dimension parameters. Sensitivities of the optical system performance with respect to the size parameters are further evaluated. The configuration of the primary mirror and the flexure are obtained. The simulated optimization results show that the size parameters differently affect the optical performance and which factors are the key. The mirror surface shape error under 30 °C uniform temperature decrease effectively decreased from 26.5 nm to 11.6 nm, despite the weight of the primary mirror assembly increases by 0.3 kg. Compared to the initial design, the value of the system’s modulation transfer function (0° field angle) is improved from 0.15 to 0.21. Namely, the optical performance of the camera under thermal load has been enhanced and thermal adaptability of the primary mirror has been obviously reinforced after optimization. Based on the optimized results, a prototype of the primary mirror assembly is manufactured and assembled. A ground thermal test was conducted to verify difference in imaging quality at room and low temperature, respectively. The image quality of the camera meets the requirements of the index despite degrading.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1872-1878
Author(s):  
Christian Morawe ◽  
Sylvain Labouré ◽  
Jean-Christophe Peffen ◽  
François Perrin ◽  
Amparo Vivo ◽  
...  

The surface figure error of a hard X-ray mirror was improved by combining differential deposition and off-line metrology tools. Thin Cr layers were deposited on flat substrates by DC magnetron sputtering. The substrates were moved in front of a beam-defining aperture. The required velocity profile was calculated using a deconvolution algorithm. The Cr thickness profiles were measured directly using hard X-ray reflectivity data. The surface figure was characterized using conventional visible-light metrology instrumentation (long trace profiler) before and after the deposition. The method converges quickly, and after two iterations the mirror surface figure had improved by a factor of 7. The surface roughness evolves with increasing Cr thickness and deteriorates the quality of subsequent multilayer coatings. The mirror curvature can change upon coating, which complicates the interpretation of the surface metrology data. In this context, the role of layer stress is discussed. Potential improvements of the process are also proposed.


Author(s):  
K. Shibatomi ◽  
T. Yamanoto ◽  
H. Koike

In the observation of a thick specimen by means of a transmission electron microscope, the intensity of electrons passing through the objective lens aperture is greatly reduced. So that the image is almost invisible. In addition to this fact, it have been reported that a chromatic aberration causes the deterioration of the image contrast rather than that of the resolution. The scanning electron microscope is, however, capable of electrically amplifying the signal of the decreasing intensity, and also free from a chromatic aberration so that the deterioration of the image contrast due to the aberration can be prevented. The electrical improvement of the image quality can be carried out by using the fascionating features of the SEM, that is, the amplification of a weak in-put signal forming the image and the descriminating action of the heigh level signal of the background. This paper reports some of the experimental results about the thickness dependence of the observability and quality of the image in the case of the transmission SEM.


2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 308-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Gijbels ◽  
G Sanderink ◽  
C Bou Serhal ◽  
H Pauwels ◽  
R Jacobs

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