Some pictures of the collimator mirrors with old coatings:
Some pictures of the collimator mirrors with new coatings:
Many pictures by Joonas Viuho and Viktoria Pinter:
Taking the mirrors out
Putting recoated mirrors back in
Three pictures by Acton Teledyne after stripping the old coatings:
From reflectivity measurements by Neil O'Mahony (ING),
before and after total reflectivity (A*A*F*B:)
total R% | total R% | ||
wavelength | before | after | gain |
365 | 28.8 | 47.8 | 1.66 |
404 | 36.4 | 86.9 | 2.39 |
464 | 41.8 | 89.8 | 2.15 |
522 | 48.5 | 88.3 | 1.82 |
624 | 49.3 | 84.4 | 1.71 |
760 | 45.7 | 85.4 | 1.87 |
970 | 55.7 | 88.2 | 1.58 |
Here A and B are the collimators, and F the flat mirror. Mirror A (left in above pictures with both mirrors) is a double-pass mirror.