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12 July 2023 Meter class optical coatings
David Harrison, Kevin Downing, Tom Mooney, Mike Merrill
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Proceedings Volume 12777, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2022; 127776V (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2691358
Event: International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2022, 2022, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Abstract
Materion Optics Balzers has been providing optical coatings for space exploration, both ground and space based for over 40 years. MBO’s Large Area Optics (LAO) laboratory, designed and brought online in 2012 continues to improve and enhance capabilities in providing bandpass filters (narrow and wide), edge filters, AR coatings, dichroic beamsplitters, enhanced mirrors and notch filters. This paper intends to demonstrate our improvements over the past decade to manufacture precision, high performance optical interference filters up to 1.4M in diameter. MBO’s purpose-built LAO laboratory includes a custom spectrophotometer, deposition system and substrate cleaning setup. All self-contained in an ISO 6/7 clean room. Previous and current efforts include items for Large Synoptic Survey telescope (LSST), Very Large telescope (VLT), Hyper Suprime Camera (HSC), Visible Tunable Filter (VTF), SkyMapper Telescope as well as many others.
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David Harrison, Kevin Downing, Tom Mooney, and Mike Merrill "Meter class optical coatings", Proc. SPIE 12777, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2022, 127776V (12 July 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2691358
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KEYWORDS
Optics manufacturing
Astronomical imaging
Optical coatings
Optical components
Bandpass filters
Design and modelling
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
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