Efficient mirrorlet array based integral field spectrometer for HWO

Qian Gong; Michael McElwain; Neil Zimmerman; Tyler Groff; Enrico Biancalani

doi:10.1117/12.3019009

23 August 2024 Efficient mirrorlet array based integral field spectrometer for HWO

Qian Gong, Michael McElwain, Neil Zimmerman, Tyler Groff, Enrico Biancalani

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Proceedings Volume 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 1309261 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019009
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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Habitable World Observatory (HWO) is a NASA strategic mission recommended by 2020 astronomical decadal survey. Integral spectrometers play an important role to verify if the observed exoplanet is habitable. The traditional lenslet array based Integral Field Spectrometer (IFS) has the advantage of simplicity and compactness. However, it does not use detector pixels efficiently in order to prevent wavelength crosstalk among adjacent spectra. The efficient lenslet/mirrorlet IFS combines the advantages from both lenslet based and imager slicer based IFSes—keeping lenslet IFS’s simplicity and compactness, concurrently adding slicer IFS’s detector efficiency. This paper discusses the principle of efficient lenslet/mirrorlet IFS, design philosophy, and efficient spectral trace layout ideals. It uses HWO NIR IFS requirement as an example to provide an efficiency mirrorlet IFS optical design. The high detector efficiency not only reduces Needed detector pixel numbers, but also reduce the high communication rate demanding for much a large multiple instrument mission. The basic idea of the efficient lenslet/mirrorlet array IFS is to design a lenslet/mirrorlet array in such a way that the images from multiple mirrorlets are grouped and aligned as a spectrum from a single slit. Therefore, the number of detector rows used to prevent wavelength crosstalk is no longer needed. This paper is also going to address how to lay the traces on the detector and what is the difference from the traditional lenslet IFS. Our goal is to show that such an IFS is capable to lay all spectral traces onto a 2k x 2k detector array using HWO NIR requirement that has a higher spectral resolving power R = 70 and a large Field of View (FOV) of 96 λ/D.

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Qian Gong, Michael McElwain, Neil Zimmerman, Tyler Groff, and Enrico Biancalani "Efficient mirrorlet array based integral field spectrometer for HWO", Proc. SPIE 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 1309261 (23 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019009

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