Current concept for the 4m European Solar Telescope (EST) optical design

J. Sánchez-Capuchino; M. Collados; D. Soltau; R. López; J. L. Rasilla; B. Gelly

doi:10.1117/12.857315

4 August 2010 Current concept for the 4m European Solar Telescope (EST) optical design

J. Sánchez-Capuchino, M. Collados, D. Soltau, R. López, J. L. Rasilla, B. Gelly

Proceedings Volume 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III; 773336 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857315
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a pan-european project (with 29 partners, plus 7 collaborating institutions, from 14 countries) for the conceptual design study of a 4-meter class solar telescope promoted by the European Association for Solar Telescopes (EAST) to be located in the Canary Islands. The telescope, in the conceptual study, provides a Coudé focus with an F/50 telecentric beam. It is diffraction-limited in a FOV of 1 arcmin and it will be optimized in throughput for several instruments observing simultaneously in a spectral range from 0.39 μm to 2.3 μm. Its innovative concept integrates an optical transfer stage assembling multiconjugated adaptive optics with optical field de-rotation and with a perfect balance of the whole system in terms of polarization being time and wavelength invariant.

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J. Sánchez-Capuchino, M. Collados, D. Soltau, R. López, J. L. Rasilla, and B. Gelly "Current concept for the 4m European Solar Telescope (EST) optical design", Proc. SPIE 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III, 773336 (4 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857315

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