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Eyeglass. 1. Very large aperture diffractive telescopes

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The Eyeglass is a very large aperture (25–100-m) space telescope consisting of two distinct spacecraft, separated in space by several kilometers. A diffractive lens provides the telescope’s large aperture, and a separate, much smaller, space telescope serves as its mobile eyepiece. Use of a transmissive diffractive lens solves two basic problems associated with very large aperture space telescopes; it is inherently launchable (lightweight, packagable, and deployable) it and virtually eliminates the traditional, very tight surface shape tolerances faced by reflecting apertures. The potential drawback to use of a diffractive primary (very narrow spectral bandwidth) is eliminated by corrective optics in the telescope’s eyepiece; the Eyeglass can provide diffraction-limited imaging with either single-band (Δλ/λ ∼ 0.1), multiband, or continuous spectral coverage.

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