2010
DOI: 10.1117/12.857423
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Optical design of the EPIC-IM crossed Dragone telescope

Abstract: The Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology -Intermediate Mission (EPIC-IM) is a concept for the NASA Einstein Inflation Probe satellite. EPIC-IM is designed to characterize the polarization properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background to search for the B-mode polarization signal characteristic of gravitational waves generated during the epoch of Inflation in the early universe. EPIC-IM employs a large focal plane with 11,000 detectors operating in 9 wavelength bands to provide 30 times higher sensitivit… Show more

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“…The F#3.0 and the crossing angle of optical axes of 90 degrees are chosen after an extensive study of stray light. We found that "clipped" side lobe 29 or triple reflection 15 of the crossed Dragone optics can be avoided with this configuration. Primary and secondary mirrors have rectangular shape (∼ 900 mm ×800 mm) with serrations to reduce diffraction pattern from the edges of mirrors.…”
Section: Low Frequency Telescope (Lft)mentioning
confidence: 86%
“…The F#3.0 and the crossing angle of optical axes of 90 degrees are chosen after an extensive study of stray light. We found that "clipped" side lobe 29 or triple reflection 15 of the crossed Dragone optics can be avoided with this configuration. Primary and secondary mirrors have rectangular shape (∼ 900 mm ×800 mm) with serrations to reduce diffraction pattern from the edges of mirrors.…”
Section: Low Frequency Telescope (Lft)mentioning
confidence: 86%
“…Multiple reflections of crossed-Dragone antennas have been described earlier. 26 A crossed-Dragone antenna of LFT has been designed with anamorphic aspherical surfaces 27 to achieve the specifications listed in Table 2. The anamorphic aspherical surface is described with the following equation for both the primary mirror (PM) and the secondary mirror (SM):…”
Section: Antenna Designmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The resulting very clean beam pattern is vital to enable the faint Hi signal to be efficiently separated from the bright Galactic foreground emission, whose signal is about 4 orders of magnitude brighter than Hi. Our adopted crossed-Dragone configuration has been a common choice for many Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments in the last 15 years (see, e.g., [15,16,17]).…”
Section: Requirements and Optical Designmentioning
confidence: 99%