Cryogenic filter wheel design for an infrared instrument

Joaquín Azcue; Carlos Villanueva; Antonio Sánchez; Cristina Polo; Manuel Reina; Angel Carretero; Josefina Torres; Gonzalo Ramos; Luis Miguel Gonzalez; Maria Dolores Sabau; Francisco Najarro; Jesús Martin Pintado

doi:10.1117/12.2060969

26 September 2014 Cryogenic filter wheel design for an infrared instrument

Joaquín Azcue, Carlos Villanueva, Antonio Sánchez, Cristina Polo, Manuel Reina, Angel Carretero, Josefina Torres, Gonzalo Ramos, Luis Miguel Gonzalez, Maria Dolores Sabau, Francisco Najarro, Jesús Martin Pintado

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Proceedings Volume 9219, Infrared Remote Sensing and Instrumentation XXII; 92190B (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2060969
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In the last two decades, Spain has built up a strong IR community which has successfully contributed to space instruments, reaching Co-PI level in the SPICA mission (Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics). Under the SPICA mission, INTA, focused on the SAFARI instrument requirements but highly adaptable to other missions has designed a cryogenic low dissipation filter wheel with six positions, taking as starting point the past experience of the team with the OSIRIS instrument (ROSETTA mission) filter wheels and adapting the design to work at cryogenic temperatures. One of the main goals of the mechanism is to use as much as possible commercial components and test them at cryogenic temperature. This paper is focused on the design of the filter wheel, including the material selection for each of the main components of the mechanism, the design of elastic mount for the filter assembly, a positioner device designed to provide positional accuracy and repeatability to the filter, allowing the locking of the position without dissipation. In order to know the position of the wheel on every moment a position sensor based on a Hall sensor was developed. A series of cryogenic tests have been performed in order to validate the material configuration selected, the ball bearing lubrication and the selection of the motor. A stepper motor characterization campaign was performed including heat dissipation measurements. The result is a six position filter wheel highly adaptable to different configurations and motors using commercial components. The mechanism was successfully tested at INTA facilities at 20K at breadboard level.

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Joaquín Azcue, Carlos Villanueva, Antonio Sánchez, Cristina Polo, Manuel Reina, Angel Carretero, Josefina Torres, Gonzalo Ramos, Luis Miguel Gonzalez, Maria Dolores Sabau, Francisco Najarro, and Jesús Martin Pintado "Cryogenic filter wheel design for an infrared instrument", Proc. SPIE 9219, Infrared Remote Sensing and Instrumentation XXII, 92190B (26 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2060969

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Cryogenics

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Optical filters

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Infrared telescopes

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