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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1991
Murty V Mantravadi, Carson, CA (US);
Susan M Raffensperger, Long Beach, CA (US);
Phillip Simpson, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Douglas R Jungwirth, Reseda, CA (US);
Seymour Levine, Topanga, CA (US);
Northrop Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A star tracker for generating positional information for a vehicle includes a holographic telescope (150) having one or more fields of view for imaging stellar objects. The telescope includes a plurality of radiation detectors (100) and an input aperture comprised of a primary holographic optical element (HOE) (134). The primary HOE provides one or more wavefronts to one or more secondary HOEs (136), each of which applies a chromatic correction so as to correct for a chromatic aberration induced by the primary HOE. A single or multiple field of view Schmidt telescope embodiment is also disclosed having one or more aspheric corrector plate HOEs and one or more associated concave spherical reflectors.