Wide Field Camera 3 instrument optical design for the Hubble Space Telescope

Jennifer A. Turner-Valle; Joseph Sullivan; John Eric Mentzell; Robert A. Woodruff

doi:10.1117/12.550893

12 October 2004 Wide Field Camera 3 instrument optical design for the Hubble Space Telescope

Jennifer A. Turner-Valle, Joseph Sullivan, John Eric Mentzell, Robert A. Woodruff

Proceedings Volume 5487, Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550893
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument was designed and built to replace the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) instrument Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) and to provide improved ultra-violet through near infra-red imaging capability during the extended HST mission. The WFC3 instrument consists of a two-channel instrument providing diffraction-limited imaging across an average 160 arc second square field of view over 200 to 1000 nm on a 4k x 4k Si detector and an average 135 arc second square field of view over 850 to 1700 nm on a 1k x 1k HgCdTe detector. We describe the optical design and predicted performance of WFC3.

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Jennifer A. Turner-Valle, Joseph Sullivan, John Eric Mentzell, and Robert A. Woodruff "Wide Field Camera 3 instrument optical design for the Hubble Space Telescope", Proc. SPIE 5487, Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes, (12 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550893

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