High-Reflectivity Coatings for a Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectropolarimeter |
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| Authors: | Noriyuki Narukage Masahito Kubo Ryohko Ishikawa Shin-nosuke Ishikawa Yukio Katsukawa Toshihiko Kobiki Gabriel Giono Ryouhei Kano Takamasa Bando Saku Tsuneta Frédéric Auchère Ken Kobayashi Amy Winebarger Jim McCandless Jianrong Chen Joanne Choi |
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| Institution: | 1.National Astronomical Observatory of Japan,Mitaka, Tokyo,Japan;2.Institute of Space and Astronautical Science,Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,Sagamihara, Kanagawa,Japan;3.Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale,CNRS/Univ. Paris-Sud 11,Orsay,France;4.NASA Marshall Space Flight Center,Huntsville,USA;5.Acton Optics and Coatings,Princeton Instruments,Acton,USA |
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| Abstract: | Precise polarization measurements in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region are expected to be a new tool for inferring the magnetic fields in the upper atmosphere of the Sun. High-reflectivity coatings are key elements to achieving high-throughput optics for precise polarization measurements. We fabricated three types of high-reflectivity coatings for a solar spectropolarimeter in the hydrogen Lyman-\(\upalpha \) (Ly\(\upalpha \); 121.567 nm) region and evaluated their performance. The first high-reflectivity mirror coating offers a reflectivity of more than 80 % in Ly\(\upalpha \) optics. The second is a reflective narrow-band filter coating that has a peak reflectivity of 57 % in Ly\(\upalpha \), whereas its reflectivity in the visible light range is lower than 1/10 of the peak reflectivity (\(\sim 5~\%\) on average). This coating can be used to easily realize a visible light rejection system, which is indispensable for a solar telescope, while maintaining high throughput in the Ly\(\upalpha \) line. The third is a high-efficiency reflective polarizing coating that almost exclusively reflects an s-polarized beam at its Brewster angle of 68° with a reflectivity of 55 %. This coating achieves both high polarizing power and high throughput. These coatings contributed to the high-throughput solar VUV spectropolarimeter called the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter (CLASP), which was launched on 3 September, 2015. |
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