A five-mirror optical derotator system is used in the Accurate Infrared Magnetic System solar telescope by virtue of its polarization-free and superior real-time performance. The derotator system can compensate image rotation during tracking observation. The system consists of five flat mirrors with their normal vectors noncoplanar. Due to the complicated spatial positions of mirrors, it is challenging to align the system with high accuracy. We analyze parallelism and concentricity characteristic of derotator system by matrix transformation and propose a compensation alignment method from multivariables perturbation simulation. This method reduces degrees of freedom for alignment from 10 to 4, which greatly simplifies the installation and adjustment process. Based on the above simulation, the alignment experiment has been conducted successfully with the parallelism and concentricity meeting the requirements. Through theoretical analysis and experimental verification, the proposed method is reasonable and provides an efficient alignment solution for this kind of five-mirror optical derotator system.
The national major scientific research instrument project: “The accurate infrared solar magnetic field measurements system” (AIMS) is under construction. The figure of the primary of the AIMS can be measured using a computer generated hologram (CGH) test during the polishing process, however, a distortion correction procedure is needed to mapping the coordinates of the mirror and the pixels of fringes due to the large distortion exists in the CGH test configuration, and the mapping relationship need to be re-calibrated after the primary mirror was reassembled, which makes the test process cumbersome. In this paper, a sub-aperture stitching equipment was established, which uses a two\dimensional guide that can move a 450mm reference flat mirror to any position that can cover the aperture of the primary mirror. The surface shape requirement of the 450 mm flat mirror was given by Monte-Carlo analysis and further the figure was tested by using Ritchey-Common technique. Furthermore, a sub-aperture stitching test system was established and a modified simultaneous fitting algorithm was proposed to stitch the sub-aperture wavefront together, the correctness of the technique was verified by a full aperture figure test experiment. Finally, we applied the developed approach to the site test of figure of the AIMS primary mirror.
In this paper, a colorful schlieren system without any protecting windows was introduced which results in that the 1.2m primary mirror would directly be confronted with the pressure and temperature variation from the wind tunnel test. To achieve a good schlieren image under the wind tunnel test working condition of a wide temperature fluctuation range (-10° to 50°) as well as a pressure (2kPa), a new flexible support method of the primary mirror was strategically designed. A finite element model of the primary mirror combined with its supporting structures was built up to approach the surface figure of the primary mirror under the complex working conditions as gravity, temperature variation, and pressure. The schlieren images due to the change of the primary mirror surface figure were simulated by Light-tools software. It was found that the temperature changing and pressure would lead to the variation of the surface figure of the primary mirror surface figure and therefore, results in the changing of the quality of simulated schlieren images.
Schlieren photography is a visual process to display the flow of fluids of varying density. It is widely used in wind tunnel tests to photograph the flow of air around objects. To achieve schlieren images with high sensitivity and high resolution, and satisfy the requirements of the large-scale wind tunnel tests, it is urgent to develop schlieren photographers with large aperture primary mirrors. However, the application of large aperture primary mirrors may bring many challenges in the design of the schlieren system. First, the surface figure of large aperture primary mirrors is difficult to control so that the support structure may need more strategical design. Second, because the schlieren system works under some severe environments of the wind tunnel test including the air disturbance, wind-induced ground vibration and high ambient pressure, it has to withstand serious instability risks to ensure a good schlieren image quality. In this work, the current status of the development in the large aperture schlieren systems is reviewed. Several advanced methods, for example, active damping control technique, focal spot monitoring technique, 18-points whilffletree support technique, etc.., are introduced to deal with the challenges of the large aperture schlieren system. This work aims at improving the technical development of large aperture schlieren photographer, which may contribute to the acquisition of the high sensitive and high resolution schlieren images and the improvement of the testing capability in wind tunnel experiments.
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