Microlens array coated as a high-efficiency reflective diffuser for the vacuum ultraviolet

Douglas B. Leviton; Linda A. Miner; Stephen H. Rice; Sharon M. Struss; Todd A. Norton; Brian McNeil

doi:10.1117/12.410515

18 December 2000 Microlens array coated as a high-efficiency reflective diffuser for the vacuum ultraviolet

Douglas B. Leviton, Linda A. Miner, Stephen H. Rice, Sharon M. Struss, Todd A. Norton, Brian McNeil

Proceedings Volume 4139, Instrumentation for UV/EUV Astronomy and Solar Missions; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410515
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The stimulus for ultraviolet flat fields (STUFF) was developed to supply spatially flat, broadband, far ultraviolet irradiance in thermal vacuum testing of the Solar Blind Channel (SBC) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) which will fly on Servicing Mission 3b in mid-2001. Because the SBC's 1K X 1K multi-anode microchannel array (MAMA) detector has a global count rate limit of about 300,000 events/s, it takes a minimum of roughly 10 hours of expensive test time in thermal vacuum to collect a deep flat field having 10,000 signal counts in each pixel (1% certainty in Poisson statistics). As such, a diffuser with far ultraviolet (FUV) throughput substantially higher than conventional state-of-the-art Lambertian diffuser material was sought to insure that the length of flat field exposures could be minimized. An FUV diffuser with concentrating properties was conceived as the overcoating of the convex lens side of commercially available microlens array material with Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) standard aluminum-magnesium fluoride coating optimized for reflectance at 120 nm. The concept for this diffuser, a geometric optical model of its performance, visible light measurements to test that model, and the diffuser's FUV performance in STUFF relative to conventional diffuser material is presented.

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Douglas B. Leviton, Linda A. Miner, Stephen H. Rice, Sharon M. Struss, Todd A. Norton, and Brian McNeil "Microlens array coated as a high-efficiency reflective diffuser for the vacuum ultraviolet", Proc. SPIE 4139, Instrumentation for UV/EUV Astronomy and Solar Missions, (18 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410515

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