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. 2021 Mar 18;29(7):10346–10363. doi: 10.1364/OE.414405

Table 3. Numerical tilt solutions that minimize the field-averaged third order wavefront variance in an afocal reflective telescope formed by two concave spherical mirrors with parameters: h0 = 2 mm,HFOV=2,f1=400 mm,m =-2, and ϕv = 0. The square root of the wavefront variances was calculated using the small angle approximation and the exact formulae in Table 1, expressed in units of waves.

   A222,xd=0.07λ A222,xd=0.28λ
Solution #   1 2   1 2
 α1(°) 0.0 -13.5 13.5 0.0 -55.9 55.9
 α2(°) 0.0 13.5 -13.5 0.0 55.9 -55.9
 β1(°) 0.0 19.1 19.1 0.0 76.3 76.3
 β2(°) 0.0 9.5 9.5 0.0 38.2 38.2
 Wvar¯NRS(approx) 0.023 0.007 0.007 0.093 0.027 0.027
 Wvar¯NRS(exact) 0.023 0.023 0.023 0.093 2.954 2.954