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ITT Tracking Telescope OptimizationProblem

ITT is responsible for five NASA Space Shuttle tracking telescope systems at the launch site in Cape Canaveral Florida. These telescopes, called ATOTS, MIGOR, and DOAMS are used for various types of downrange imaging of shuttle launches. The telescopes were exhibitingless than optimal imaging characteristics from out focus camera images. ITT was looking for a method to realign and precisely focus the high-speed cameras on each of these tracking telescopes. The solution needed to be simple, robust and cost effective. It also needed to operate on-site at each telescope installation.

Partial US Client List� Alcon

� Affymetrix

� Allergan

� Boston Scientific

� CibaVision

� Compucyte

� Cytometrics

� Digimarc

� Elbit

� Fisher-Price

� Gillette

� Hewlett-Packard

� IBM

� ITT

� Intel

� Johnson &Johnson

� KLA-Tencor

� Lockheed Martin

� Northrop Grumman

� Philips

� Raytheon

� Saab Dynamics

� Samsung

� Schlumberger

� Teradyne

� Texas Instruments

� UPS

� Vistakon

� Zygo

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Solution

Our engineering team came up with an approach inspired by a common optical design approach – ray tracing. That is, by tracing single rays of light into the telescope system and monitoring the characteristics of that ray on the image plane, system focus can be determined and optimized. If the camera’s image planeis forward of the best focus position, then the raytraces across the image plane in one direction. If the image plane is behind best focus, then theray traces in the opposite direction. At bestfocus, the spot is fixed. The alignment systemwatches the behavior of the single ray as it movesacross the image plane and gives the precise location of best focus.

The Optikos alignment system uses a lateral stage system, a laser, opto-mechanical stages and a sophisticated optics assembly to insure the“ray” of light remains parallel as it traverses across the telescope aperture.The optics is intolerant to small mechanical stage errors so near perfect parallelism is maintained across the full aperture. In addition, the system incorporates precision tip and tilt controls to steer the light ray into off-axis conditions. Scanning off-axisrays allows the user to determine the magnitude and direction of image plane tilt, which can be corrected in the adjustable camera mount.

Since this alignment system is required to operate in the field, our designers needed to builda system that could handle the environmental extremes of Florida. The opto-mechanics wereall athermalized to insure good performance over a wide range of temperatures. The unit isalso sealed providing years of error free testing.

Results

Optikos has successfully installed five alignment systemsinto the field. Our customer has reported great successin improving the quality of images from each of the telescope systems.