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Throughput of diffraction-limited field optics systems for infrared and millimetric telescopes

R. H. Hildebrand and R. Winston

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Telescopes for submillimeter wavelengths have point spread functions some millimeters or centimeters in diameter, but the detectors may be only fractions of a millimeter in size. Thus a field aperture and collecting optics are needed. We show how to optimize the aperture by a calculation of the effects of diffraction on signal and resolution as a function of size of the collecting aperture. Our calculations are compared to experimental results from observations of Mars at submillimeter wavelengths.

© 1982 Optical Society of America

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R. H. Hildebrand and R. Winston, "Throughput of diffraction-limited field optics systems for infrared and millimetric telescopes: erratum," Appl. Opt. 21, 3065-3065 (1982)
https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-21-17-3065
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