Diffraction effects from giant segmented-mirror telescopes

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Jul 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003apopt..42.3745t&link_type=abstract

Applied Optics, Volume 42, Issue 19, pp. 3745-3753 (2003).

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Optics

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Astronomical Telescopes, Mirrors, Light Diffraction, Image Processing, Fast Fourier Transforms, Aberrations, Optical Arrays

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Ultrahigh contrast imaging with giant segmented-mirror telescopes will involve light levels of order 10-6 times that of the central diffraction spike or less. At these levels it is important to quantify accurately various diffraction effects, including segmentation geometry, intersegment gaps, obscuration by the secondary mirror and its supports, and segment alignment and figure errors. We describe an accurate method for performing such calculations and present preliminary results in the context of the California Extremely Large Telescope.

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