Bibcode
Calcines, A.; Ichimoto, K.
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9143, id. 91434C 13 pp. (2014).
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2014
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Description
This communication presents the feasibility study of an image slicer for
future space missions, especially for the integral field unit (IFU) of
the SUVIT (Solar UV-Visible-IR telescope) spectro-polarimeter on board
the Japanese-led solar space mission Solar-C as a backup option. The
MuSICa (Multi-Slit Image slicer based on collimator-Camera) image slicer
concept, originally developed for the European Solar Telescope, has been
adapted to the SUVIT requirements. The IFU will reorganizes a 2-D field
of view of 10 x 10 arcsec2 into three slits of 0.18 arcsec
width by 185.12 arcsec length using flat slicer mirrors of 100 μm
width. The layout of MuSICa for Solar-C is telecentric and offers an
optical quality limited by diffraction. The entrance for the SUVIT
spectro-polarimeter is composed by the three IFU slits and one ordinal
long slit to study, using high resolution spectro-polarimetry, the solar
atmosphere (Photosphere and Chromosphere) within a spectral range
between 520 nm (optionally 280 nm) and 1,100 nm.