Optical and mechanical design of the fore-optics of HARMONI

J. Sánchez-Capuchino; E. Hernández; A. Bueno; J. M. Herreros; N. Thatte; I. Bryson; F. Clarke; M. Tecza

doi:10.1117/12.2055504

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28 July 2014 Optical and mechanical design of the fore-optics of HARMONI

J. Sánchez-Capuchino, E. Hernández, A. Bueno, J. M. Herreros, N. Thatte, I. Bryson, F. Clarke, M. Tecza

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Proceedings Volume 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V; 91479J (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055504
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

HARMONI is a visible and near-infrared (0.47μm to 2.5μm) integral field spectrometer providing the E-ELT's core spectroscopic capability. It will provide ~32000 simultaneous spectra of a rectangular field of view at four foreseen different spatial sample (spaxel) scales. The HARMONI fore-optics re-formats the native telescope plate scale to suitable values for the downstream instrument optics. This telecentric adaptation includes anamorphic magnification of the plate scale to optimize the performance of the IFU, which contains the image slicer, and their four spectrographs. In addition, it provides an image of the telescope pupil to assemble a cold stop shared among all the scales allowing efficient suppression of the thermal background. A pupil imaging unit also re-images the pupil cold stop onto the image slicer to check the relative alignment between the E-ELT and HARMONI pupils. The scale changer will also host the filter wheel with the long-pass filters to select the wavelength range. The main reasoning specifying the importance of the HARMONI fore-optics and its current optical and mechanical design is described in this contribution.

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J. Sánchez-Capuchino, E. Hernández, A. Bueno, J. M. Herreros, N. Thatte, I. Bryson, F. Clarke, and M. Tecza "Optical and mechanical design of the fore-optics of HARMONI", Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 91479J (28 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055504

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