@inproceedings{040abc809f0b49769b22822a75c14aa2,
title = "Optical design of a modular segmented space telescope",
abstract = "Space observatories have many advantages over ground-based telescopes. However, constructing and launching large space telescopes remains a significant challenge. A solution to this problem lies in autonomous, in-space assembly. To gain benefits from efficiencies of scale and mass production, a modular telescope assembled in space can be constructed from identical mirror segments. These identical segments must then be deformed to an appropriate shape in space. This work examines the optical feasibility of such a project, using a 31 meter Ritchey-Chr{\'e}tien telescope composed of about 1,000 1-m mirrors as a case study. In particular, this work examines the shape of the telescope optics through Zernike decomposition and computes the physical optics propagation of such a system to analyze the resultant PSF with simulation in Zemax OpticStudio.",
author = "Jacob Shapiro and Dean Keithly and Gabriel Soto and Dmitry Savransky and Erik Gustafson",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 SPIE.; Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems II 2019 ; Conference date: 12-08-2019 Through 15-08-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1117/12.2529816",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Hull, \{Tony B.\} and Kim, \{Dae Wook\} and Pascal Hallibert",
booktitle = "Astronomical Optics",
}