A new design approach to innovative spectrometers. Case study: TROPOLITE

Jean-Baptiste Volatier; Stefan Baümer; Bob Kruizinga; Rob Vink

doi:10.1117/12.2051596

1 May 2014 A new design approach to innovative spectrometers. Case study: TROPOLITE

Jean-Baptiste Volatier, Stefan Baümer, Bob Kruizinga, Rob Vink

Proceedings Volume 9131, Optical Modelling and Design III; 91310L (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051596
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Designing a novel optical system is a nested iterative process. The optimization loop, from a starting point to final system is already mostly automated. However this loop is part of a wider loop which is not. This wider loop starts with an optical specification and ends with a manufacturability assessment. When designing a new spectrometer with emphasis on weight and cost, numerous iterations between the optical- and mechanical designer are inevitable. The optical designer must then be able to reliably produce optical designs based on new input gained from multidisciplinary studies. This paper presents a procedure that can automatically generate new starting points based on any kind of input or new constraint that might arise. These starting points can then be handed over to a generic optimization routine to make the design tasks extremely efficient. The optical designer job is then not to design optical systems, but to meta-design a procedure that produces optical systems paving the way for system level optimization. We present here this procedure and its application to the design of TROPOLITE a lightweight push broom imaging spectrometer.

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Jean-Baptiste Volatier, Stefan Baümer, Bob Kruizinga, and Rob Vink "A new design approach to innovative spectrometers. Case study: TROPOLITE", Proc. SPIE 9131, Optical Modelling and Design III, 91310L (1 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051596

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