Optical design, fabrication, and alignment of a Hubble Space Telescope simulator for Wide-Field/Planetary Camera II

Arthur H. Vaughan; Norman A. Page; Robert G. Chave; Kais Almarzouk; Juan L. Rayces

doi:10.1117/12.160411

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15 October 1993 Optical design, fabrication, and alignment of a Hubble Space Telescope simulator for Wide-Field/Planetary Camera-II

Arthur H. Vaughan, Norman A. Page, Robert G. Chave, Kais Almarzouk, Juan L. Rayces

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Proceedings Volume 1996, Optical Alignment; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.160411
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

End-to-end tests of the second generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera for the Hubble Space Telescope were performed with an optical stimulus that accurately simulates the optical configuration of the aberrated Hubble Space Telescope. This paper describes the optical design of the stimulus and the tooling used to control its alignment and validate is performance.

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Arthur H. Vaughan, Norman A. Page, Robert G. Chave, Kais Almarzouk, and Juan L. Rayces "Optical design, fabrication, and alignment of a Hubble Space Telescope simulator for Wide-Field/Planetary Camera-II", Proc. SPIE 1996, Optical Alignment, (15 October 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.160411

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