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17 November 2017 Overview of diffraction gratings technologies for spaceflight satellites and ground-based telescopes
A. Cotel, A. Liard, F. Desserouer, P. Pichon
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Proceedings Volume 10563, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2014; 105630P (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2304240
Event: International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2014, 2014, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Abstract
The diffraction gratings are widely used in Space-flight satellites for spectrograph instruments or in ground-based telescopes in astronomy. The diffraction gratings are one of the key optical components of such systems and have to exhibit very high optical performances.

HORIBA Jobin Yvon S.A.S. (part of HORIBA Group) is in the forefront of such gratings development for more than 40 years. During the past decades, HORIBA Jobin Yvon (HJY) has developed a unique expertise in diffraction grating design and manufacturing processes for holographic, ruled or etched gratings.

We will present in this paper an overview of diffraction grating technologies especially designed for space and astronomy applications. We will firstly review the heritage of the company in this field with the space qualification of different grating types. Then, we will describe several key grating technologies developed for specific space or astronomy projects: ruled blazed low groove density plane reflection grating, high-groove density holographic toroidal and spherical grating, and finally transmission Fused Silica Etched (FSE) grism-assembled grating. We will not present the Volume Phase Holographic (VPHG) grating type which is used in Astronomy.
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A. Cotel, A. Liard, F. Desserouer, and P. Pichon "Overview of diffraction gratings technologies for spaceflight satellites and ground-based telescopes", Proc. SPIE 10563, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2014, 105630P (17 November 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2304240
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KEYWORDS
Diffraction gratings

Optical design

Holography

Astronomical imaging

Polarization

Space telescopes

Spherical lenses

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