18 April 2024 General analysis of freeform two-mirror telescopes
Tyler Peterson, José Sasián
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Abstract

Two-mirror telescopes possess an agreeable tradeoff between performance and complexity that suits the needs of many scientific tasks, and recent developments in manufacturing technology have enabled unobscured two-mirror designs with freeform surfaces. We illustrate how structural aberration coefficients reveal the fundamental aberration characteristics of such systems and provide a summary table of general solutions that prescribe freeform surface shapes and tilts. Two unobscured design forms with remarkable aberration cancellation, inspired by well-known on-axis anastigmatic solutions, are presented.

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Tyler Peterson and José Sasián "General analysis of freeform two-mirror telescopes," Optical Engineering 63(4), 045104 (18 April 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.63.4.045104
Received: 19 February 2024; Accepted: 1 April 2024; Published: 18 April 2024
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KEYWORDS
Mirrors

Telescopes

Monochromatic aberrations

Imaging systems

Fourier transforms

Optical engineering

Optical instrument design

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