Integration/test of dual unit arrayed wide-angle camera system and its evaluation in the context of Extremely Large Telescopes

Hanshin Lee; Brian L. Vattiat; Uma Subash; Menelaos K. Poutous

doi:10.1117/12.2627344

29 August 2022 Integration/test of dual unit arrayed wide-angle camera system and its evaluation in the context of Extremely Large Telescopes

Hanshin Lee, Brian L. Vattiat, Uma Subash, Menelaos K. Poutous

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Proceedings Volume 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX; 121848E (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2627344
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Arrayed Wide-Angle Camera System (AWACS) is based on segmented-field corrector architecture and can be scaled to a much larger than meter-size field of view featured in Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs). The desired field expansion is accomplished via a suite of small units over a telescope’s focal surface, for local and simultaneous telescope field aberration and atmospheric dispersion compensation (ADC). We constructed a dual-unit science-grade AWACS, with fully-fledged opto-electro-mechanical system including miniature ADC mechanisms, precision freeform lenses, anti reflective nanostructures, and CNC-machined mechanical structures. The current snapshots of the integration/test of this AWACS and its evaluation in the context of the ELTs are detailed.

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Hanshin Lee, Brian L. Vattiat, Uma Subash, and Menelaos K. Poutous "Integration/test of dual unit arrayed wide-angle camera system and its evaluation in the context of Extremely Large Telescopes", Proc. SPIE 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 121848E (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2627344

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