All Reflective Spectrometer Design For Infrared Space Observatory

H. Visser; C. Smorenburg

doi:10.1117/12.955573

11 October 1989 All Reflective Spectrometer Design For Infrared Space Observatory

H. Visser, C. Smorenburg

Proceedings Volume 1113, Reflective Optics II; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.955573
Event: SPIE 1989 Technical Symposium on Aerospace Sensing, 1989, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The European Space Agency ESA has started the development of the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), that will be launched in 1993. The TNO Institute of Applied Physics has been contracted for the major part of the optical/mechanical design of one of the 4 scientific instruments of ISO. This instrument, called the Short Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS) will measure stellar spectra in the wavelength range of 2.5 - 45 μm and will operate at a temperature of about 4K. The severe performance requirements together with weight and space limitations made a special instrument design necessary, using an all reflective grating spectrometer configuration with excotic shaped aspherical mirrors. At this moment the Qualification model of the SWS has been assembled and aligned and some optical, thermal and vibration tests have been performed with satisfying results.

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H. Visser and C. Smorenburg "All Reflective Spectrometer Design For Infrared Space Observatory", Proc. SPIE 1113, Reflective Optics II, (11 October 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.955573

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