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Paper Abstract
As the costs of space missions continue to rise, the demand for compact, low mass, low-cost technologies that maintain
high reliability and facilitate high performance is increasing. One such technology is the stabilized dispersive focal plane
system (SDFPS). This technology provides image stabilization while simultaneously delivering spectroscopic or direct
imaging functionality using only a single optical path and detector. Typical systems require multiple expensive optical
trains and/or detectors, sometimes at the expense of photon throughput. The SDFPS is ideal for performing wide-field
low-resolution space-based spectroscopic and direct-imaging surveys. In preparation for a suborbital flight, we have
built and ground tested a prototype SDFPS that will concurrently eliminate unwanted image blurring due to the lack of
adequate platform stability, while producing images in both spectroscopic and direct-imaging modes. We present the
overall design, testing results, and potential scientific applications.
Paper Details
Date Published: 13 September 2012
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 8450, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II, 84500K (13 September 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.926387
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8450:
Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II
Ramón Navarro; Colin R. Cunningham; Eric Prieto, Editor(s)
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 8450, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II, 84500K (13 September 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.926387
Show Author Affiliations
Peter W. A. Roming, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Amanda J. Bayless, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Chip R. Beebe, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Mark J. Brooks, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Michael W. Davis, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Amanda J. Bayless, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Chip R. Beebe, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Mark J. Brooks, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Michael W. Davis, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Robert A. Klar, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
John M. Roberts, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Randall J. Rose, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Gregory S. Winters, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
John M. Roberts, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Randall J. Rose, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Gregory S. Winters, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8450:
Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II
Ramón Navarro; Colin R. Cunningham; Eric Prieto, Editor(s)
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