LIU Min-zhe, LIU Hua, XU Wen-bin etc. Membrane photon sieve for space telescope[J]. Editorial Office of Optics and Precision Engineering, 2014,22(8): 2127-2134
LIU Min-zhe, LIU Hua, XU Wen-bin etc. Membrane photon sieve for space telescope[J]. Editorial Office of Optics and Precision Engineering, 2014,22(8): 2127-2134 DOI: 10.3788/OPE.20142208.2127.
According to the requirements of a space diffraction imaging system for large-aperture
weight-lightening and space deployable
a new diffraction optical element
PI photon sieve
was designed and fabricated. Firstly
the design theory of PI photon sieve was analyzed and the design parameters for an amplitude photon sieve were given according to the characteristics and the principle of space applications. Then
the mechanical structure of the photon sieve was designed by using UG software and a PI membrane photon sieve was successfully manufactured by employing micro-fabrication methods including e-beam vacuum coating
photolithography and wet etching. Finally
the diffraction efficiency of the PI photon sieve was measured and the imaging performance was tested. The experimental results show that the diffraction efficiency of photon sieve is 4.916% at the wavelength of 632.8 nm
which is about 73.9% of the theoretical value. For the star testing
by choosing the star hole with a diameter of 10 μm and using a He-Ne laser for the light source
an ideal Airy disc with a diameter of 176.70 μm was obtained
which is very close to the theoretical value
and the error is only 4.04%. For the imaging experiments
the maximum resolution of the photon sieve is measured to be 12.2 lp/mm
which is close to the spatial frequency limit of 14.4 lp/mm. It is shown that the experimental results are generally in agreement with the theoretical results. Comparing with other diffractive elements
PI photon sieve satisfies the application requirement of the primary mirror used in a space telescope for its lighter weight and better imaging performance.
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