Liquid crystals Lyot filter for solar coronagraphy

Details Liquid crystals Lyot filter for solar coronagraphy Liquid crystals Lyot filter for solar coronagraphy

Sep 2011

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Solar Physics and Space Weather Instrumentation IV. Edited by Fineschi, Silvano; Fennelly, Judy. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volu

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The "Association de Satellites Pour l'Imagerie et l'Interférométrie de la Couronne Solaire", ASPIICS, is a solar coronagraph to be flown on the PROBA 3 Technology mission of the European Space Agency. ASPIICS heralds the next generation of coronagraphs for solar research, exploiting formation flying to gain access to the inner corona under eclipse-like conditions in space. The science goal is high spatial resolution imaging and two-dimensional spectrophotometry of the Fe XIV, 530.3 nm, emission line. This work describes a liquid crystal Lyot tunable-filter and polarimeter (LCTP) that can implement this goal. The LCTP is a bandpass filter with a full width at half maximum of 0.15 nm at a wavelength of 530.3 nm. The center wavelength of the bandpass is tunable in 0.01 nm steps from 528.64 nm to 533.38 nm. It is a four stage Lyot filter with all four stages wide-fielded. The free spectral range between neighboring transmission bands of the filter is 2.7 nm. The wavelength tuning is non-mechanical using nematic liquid crystal variable retarders (LCVR's). A separate LCVR of the Senarmont design, in tandem with the filter, is used for the polarimetric measurements. A prototype of the LCTP has been built and its measured performances are presented here.

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