Design of the Optical System for a Protomodel of Space Infrared Cryogenic System

Abstract

Many technical challenges are being tried for a large space infrared telescope, which is one of the major objectives of the Strategic Technology Road Map (STRM) of KASI (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute). As one of these challenges, KASI and KBSI (Korea Basic Science Institute) have started a cooperation project for developing a space infrared cryogenic system with KIMM (Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials) and i3system co. In this paper, we generate optical requirements for the Protomodel of Space Infrared Cryogenic System (PSICS), and design a single lens optical system with a bandpass of 3.8˜4.8μm, a field of view of 15° × 12°, and an angular resolution of 0.047°, to develop a further complex optical system.

Keywords

• IR
• optical design
• cryogenics
• space telescope
• protomodel