{"title":"Impacts of Technology Innovation on Scientific Discovery","authors":"J. Zmuidzinas","doi":"10.1117/12.2590136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2590136","url":null,"abstract":"Progress in astronomy is largely driven by advances in technology. Yet, only a tiny fraction of the worldwide investment in technology directly targets the needs of astronomy, so astronomers must seek to leverage and harness technology advancements made for other purposes. In this presentation, I will explore the various ways this has been done for three major recent advances in the study of black holes: the detection of merging black holes with LIGO in 2016, the radio imaging of M87’s supermassive black hole with EHT in 2019, and the decades-long studies of stellar motions near the galactic center, which revealed the central black hole in our galaxy and is the subject of the 2020 Nobel prize. In each case, the technology story spans decades, and involves a combination of advances in several areas.","PeriodicalId":255503,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127449293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 asteroid sample return missions and the beyond","authors":"H. Kuninaka","doi":"10.1117/12.2589949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2589949","url":null,"abstract":"Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) promoted Hayabusa asteroid sample return mission, which was launched in 2003 and returned to Earth in 2010. The retrieved capsule contained many particles originating from the S-type asteroid Itokawa. Based on the Hayabusa's achievements, Hayabusa-2 succeeded to rendezvous with the C-type asteroid Ryugu in 2018. It has accomplished all of the proximity operations such as remote sensing, robot separations, crater formation, landings, and so on, and will come back to Earth in 2020. JAXA is now putting our space assets, from Mercury to Jupiter, which will make the JAXA Deep Space Fleet to elucidate 4.6-billion-year history of the Solar System.","PeriodicalId":255503,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115051717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Carlotti, D. Mouillet, Alexis Bidot, G. Bourdarot, J. Correia, L. Jocou, A. Delboulbé, E. Coarer, R. Doyon, É. Artigau, P. Vallée, A. Roux, P. Feautrier, P. Rabou, T. Forveille, X. Bonfils, G. Lo-Cascio, Ambarish Parthasarathy, D. Mawet, G. Vasisht, A. Vigan, G. Otten
{"title":"High-resolution spectroscopy of diffraction-limited sources: laboratory tests of an innovative near-IR demonstrator","authors":"A. Carlotti, D. Mouillet, Alexis Bidot, G. Bourdarot, J. Correia, L. Jocou, A. Delboulbé, E. Coarer, R. Doyon, É. Artigau, P. Vallée, A. Roux, P. Feautrier, P. Rabou, T. Forveille, X. Bonfils, G. Lo-Cascio, Ambarish Parthasarathy, D. Mawet, G. Vasisht, A. Vigan, G. Otten","doi":"10.1117/12.2560666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560666","url":null,"abstract":"Current high-resolution spectrometers have been designed for seeing-limited sources. Designing a spectrometer for diffraction-limited sources makes it possible to significantly improves its compacity and cost, but it also opens up new concepts, including better efficiency, and adaptability to various spectral domains, and up to very high resolution (several 10^5). A novel, near-IR, R~80000 spectrometer has been developed at IPAG to characterize two sources at once in the H or K bands. Its design is based on a virtually imaged phased array instead of an echelle grating, which allows the spectrometer to fit inside a 0.2m3 cryostat, and results in a gain in throughput with respect to usual echelle spectrographs. One specific science case that can benefit from this new type of design is the characterization of exoplanets' atmosphere. This paper presents the results of its test in the laboratory, as well as the preparation for an on-sky demonstration tentatively scheduled for summer 2020.","PeriodicalId":255503,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115173916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Phillips, Brian Dupraw, David M. Fryauf, M. Bolte, N. Kobayashi
{"title":"Recent results of UCO’s silver-based mirror coating development","authors":"A. Phillips, Brian Dupraw, David M. Fryauf, M. Bolte, N. Kobayashi","doi":"10.1117/12.2562841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562841","url":null,"abstract":"University of California Observatories has undertaken an effort to develop improved optical coatings for astronomy, with a particular emphasis on long-lived, highly efficient silver-based mirror coatings. We previously reported on a thin-film design including nickel oxide that showed significant improvement in accelerated aging tests, but had not yet undergone field testing. In this paper we briefly summarize our past work, and then discuss (a) two years’ field testing of our design with NiO; (b) efforts to find other materials that play the same role as NiO in improving durability; and (c) tests with ScF3 that show good results as a replacement for YF3/YbF3 but with improved optical properties. We also report on a long-term study of the effects of multiple cycles of stripping/re-coatings on various substrates, finding no significant substrate damage with aluminum, but some damage over time with our current protected-Ag coatings, particularly on borosilicate glass.","PeriodicalId":255503,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV","volume":"47 47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132530620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Super-resolution imaging via aperture modulation","authors":"Biao Xu, Zhiqiang Wang, Jinping He","doi":"10.1117/12.2561416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561416","url":null,"abstract":"High-resolution telescopic imaging is very important in astronomy. Super-resolution technology which breaks the diffraction limit of the imaging system can enhance the spatial resolution with compact setup and low cost. In this work, a novel super-resolution telescopic imaging method based on aperture modulation is proposed, and two different algorithms based on intensity extrapolation and image reconstruction for the recovery of super-resolution image are demonstrated respectively. With the help of aperture modulation, redundant information which contains high frequency components beyond the cut-off frequency of the imaging system is coded into the image sequence, and then they are extracted and used to reconstruct the super-resolution image by subsequent signal processing. Experimental results showed that the resolution was enhanced by 2.1 times for extended targets, and 3 times for point sources. Better performance is possible with the improvement of algorithm.","PeriodicalId":255503,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134177757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Goebel, M. Heusinger, D. Richter, R. G. Krämer, T. O. Imogore, C. Matzdorf, Maximilian Heck, U. Zeitner, S. Nolte
{"title":"Semi-aperiodic fiber Bragg gratings for hydroxyl emission line suppression","authors":"T. Goebel, M. Heusinger, D. Richter, R. G. Krämer, T. O. Imogore, C. Matzdorf, Maximilian Heck, U. Zeitner, S. Nolte","doi":"10.1117/12.2562029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562029","url":null,"abstract":"Atmospheric emission limits observation with ground-based telescopes in the NIR. Those emission lines are very narrow in bandwidth and thus enable for filtering them with fiber Bragg gratings to utilize the light passing in-between. We present a scheme for the compact inscription of multiple notch filters with a semi-aperiodic fiber Bragg grating. Herein, we utilize the interference of neighboring grating sections of a phase mask which then produces the desired resonances inside a fiber. Our current design addresses up to ten wavelengths which are matched with an accuracy better than 175pm.","PeriodicalId":255503,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125989353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Begou, F. Lemarquis, A. Moreau, F. Lemarchand, H. Reus, D. Arhilger, H. Hagedorn, J. Lumeau
{"title":"Magnetron sputtering technology for the fabrication of linearly variable filters","authors":"T. Begou, F. Lemarquis, A. Moreau, F. Lemarchand, H. Reus, D. Arhilger, H. Hagedorn, J. Lumeau","doi":"10.1117/12.2562192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562192","url":null,"abstract":"Variable filters, in which the bandpass central wavelength shifts along a dimension of the component, is a promising way to simplify and to miniaturize imaging spectrophotometer systems for spatial observation. In this paper, we present a new method for the fabrication of variable filters with different spatial profiles based on plasma assisted reactive magnetron sputtering. Variable filters are based on the variation of the thickness of the layers deposited on the substrate. The layers are manufactured using a Buhler HELIOS machine. To insure a non-uniformity of the deposited layers, adapted masks are placed in front of the targets for the low and high refractive index materials. The uniformity of these layers is measured via a homemade set-up allowing a local measurement of the transmission over the component surface. We demonstrate the fabrication of a narrow variable filter where all the thicknesses of all layers are changing, resulting in an overall shift of the filter.","PeriodicalId":255503,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127925576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Morgan B. Bonnet, Haosheng Lin, T. Sukegawa, Y. Okura, T. Nakayasu, Yukimasa Suyama
{"title":"The mechanical design of the machined image slicer integral field units for the diffraction-limited near-IR spectropolarimeter","authors":"Morgan B. Bonnet, Haosheng Lin, T. Sukegawa, Y. Okura, T. Nakayasu, Yukimasa Suyama","doi":"10.1117/12.2560809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560809","url":null,"abstract":"With the recent advancement of ultra-high-precision micro-optics fabrication technologies, it is now possible to fabricate IFUs based on machined image slicers with slicer width of 30 um or less. We have developed a machined image slicer IFU (MISI) to replace the BiFOIS IFU of the DL-NIRSP Instrument, one of the first light instrument for the DKIST Telescope. Overall, the IFU contains a total of 336 micro mirrors and a common collimator. The large number of micro optical elements of MISI present a great challenge to the optical and mechanical design process of the IFU. Typical design method that model and position each optical element manually would result in a tedious and lengthy mechanical design process.\u0000This paper describes the CAD design process of MISI using Solidworks macros that were developed to automatically generate all the optical surfaces based on the ZEMAX model data output and also simulating the tool shape and path to generate a precise model of the IFU.","PeriodicalId":255503,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129919616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Felicitas E. Niebler, R. Bender, D. Costantini, M. Fabricius, N. Granzow, Hanshin Lee, F. Her, G. Hill, U. Hopp, Benjamin H. Staiger, J. Stay
{"title":"Fiber Fabry-Perot interferometer as calibration source for medium resolution spectrographs in the visible range","authors":"Felicitas E. Niebler, R. Bender, D. Costantini, M. Fabricius, N. Granzow, Hanshin Lee, F. Her, G. Hill, U. Hopp, Benjamin H. Staiger, J. Stay","doi":"10.1117/12.2560916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560916","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":255503,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117171966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. D. Nelson, Matthew Brunelle, T. Blalock, D. Brooks
{"title":"Using total error measurements of freeforms during manufacturing to aid in alignment","authors":"J. D. Nelson, Matthew Brunelle, T. Blalock, D. Brooks","doi":"10.1117/12.2562681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562681","url":null,"abstract":"Freeform optics can enhance optical performance by reducing the number of elements, enabling lighter and more efficient systems, and by reducing aberrations. Most traditional manufacturing techniques cannot yield polished freeform optical surfaces. Likewise, traditional metrology equipment has difficulty accurately measuring the deviation of freeform surfaces from their nominal shape, the surface form error. The freeform manufacturing process requires control of both the surface form and the surface location simultaneously. The combination of both surface location and form error is referred to as total error. Inclusion of mechanical fiducials on freeform optics allows for precise locating of all surfaces of an optic in reference to one another and provide a reference from which the freeform surface can be measured against. Alignment fiducials enable more precise measurement of total error and can also aid in alignment of the optic in the final assembly and test.","PeriodicalId":255503,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV","volume":"212 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116155669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}