Support structure of large beam splitter in space
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Abstract
Beamsplitterisacrucialpartofalargespaceopticalremotesensortosplittheimaginglight intotwobeams.Inordertosolvetheproblemofsupportingalargebeamsplitterofaspacecamera, theresearchworkonthesupportingsyructureofalargebeamsplitterwithadimensionof200mm200mm 200mmwasperformed.Thedesignofthesupportingstructureofalargecubicbeamsplitterbasedon thephilosophyofsemi-kinematicmountingandpassivethermalcompensationwaspresented.Thecontact pairconstrainswerebuilt,thenonlinearityoftheboundaryconditionwassimulatedandtheengineering analysisontheprismassemblyutilizingnonlinearfiniteelementmethodswasperformed.Theanalysis resultsindicatedthesurfacefigureprecisionofthebeamsplitter'sLightPassSurface,thusthePVvalue waslessthan73.2nmandtheRMSvaluewaslessthan12nmunderthecouplingofgravityand15℃ stationarytemperaturechange;thefirstnaturalfrequencyofthebeamsplitterassemblyreached183Hz. Thesupportingstructuredesignofthebeamsplittterisvalid,andcansatisfythedemandsonthe structuralstiffnessandthermalstabilityinthespaceenvironment.
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