Schmidt type optical system for the KLYPVE-EUSO UHECR detector

Anno: 2017

Autori: Sandri P., Sharakin S., Mazzinghi P., Takizawa Y., JEM-EUSO Collaboration

Affiliazione autori: OHB-Italia SpA, via Arno 108, Osmannoro, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), 50019, Italy; Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1(2), Leninskie gory, GSP-1, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation; Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Largo Enrico Fermi, 6, Firenze, 50125, Italy; RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

Abstract: We present the optical design of the baseline solution for the telescope of the KLYPVE-EUSO UHECR experiment. The adopted optical layout is a Schmidt camera covering a field of view of 40° with an entrance pupil diameter of 2.5 m, a 4 m diameter spherical mirror and a focal length of 1.7 m. The resulting very fast relative aperture (F/# 0.7) minimizes the detector size and its obstruction, resulting in a throughput of 70% over the entire field of view. The optical design, with an optimized shape of the corrector plate, allows for a correction of the geometric and the chromatic aberrations in the spectral range from 337 nm to 391 nm. The resulting nominal polychromatic RMS spot size is well inside the dimension of pixel size (3 mm) of the multi-anode PMT all over the field of view, providing a ground resolution of about 750 m from the ISS orbit. The maximum geometric distortion is below 5%. The axial length of the camera and the position of the aperture stop have been optimized in order to meet the stringent requirements on vignetting and throughout.

Titolo Convegno: Proceedings 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference ICRC2017
Luogo: Bexco, Busan, Korea 10-20 July, (2017)