Large-Area, High-Efficiency Diffractive Optics for Solar Imaging, Year 2
Status: Completed
Start Date: 2021-10-01
End Date: 2022-09-30
Description:
Advance diffractive photon sieves to larger aperture, improved efficiency, optimized fabrication, and higher TRL, thereby enabling diffraction-limited angular resolution in the EUV;
Benefits:
Achieve 10-20 times better EUV angular resolution than current or planned missions, with a collecting area to support fast-cadence imaging of transient events.
Lead Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center