A high-accuracy assembling method of R-C system with flexible support structure

R-C optical systems commonly used in long focal length imaging, long-distance detection fields such as aerospace and space optical communication. In this paper, the R-C optical system consists of two reflective mirrors and four correction lenses. The primary mirror adopts three sets of flexible structures for back support, which can provide a reasonable access to reduce the influence of the mirror's self-weight and thermal distortion on the mirror surface. For the high accuracy assembly, the simulation has been conducted firstly by sensitivity matrix method to figure out the sensitive components and corresponding geometrical parameters about the focal length, wavefront aberration, and energy concentration and an assembling method is proposed. Experiment is carried out to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed calibration method, for the wavefront aberration with RMS value of center of view is 0.17λ (λ=0.6328nm), and the diameter of spot dispersion about center field of view is 12.35μm, the diameter of spot dispersion in full field of view better than 18μm can be achieved.