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Title: Condenser for illuminating a ring field

Patent ·
OSTI ID:869595

A series of segments of a parent aspheric mirror having one foci at at a si-point source of radiation and the other foci at the radius of a ring field have all but one or all of their beams translated and rotated by sets of mirrors such that all of the beams pass through the real entrance pupil of a ring field camera about one of the beams and fall onto the ring field radius as a coincident image as an arc of the ring field.

Research Organization:
AT&T
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DP00789
Assignee:
United States of America as represented by Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
Patent Number(s):
US 5361292
OSTI ID:
869595
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English