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Lobster-eye optics

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Schematic diagram of lobster-eye lens. The green arrow represents the incident light and the red arrows represent the normal of the channel wall.[1]

Lobster-eye optics are a biomimetic design, based on the structure of the eyes of a lobster with an ultra wide field of view, used in X-ray optics. This configuration allows X-ray light to enter from multiple angles, capturing more X-rays from a larger area than other X-ray telescopes. The idea was originally proposed for use in X-ray astronomy by Roger Angel in 1979, with a similar idea presented earlier by W. K. H. Schmidt in 1975. It was first used by NASA on a sub-orbital sounding rocket experiment in 2012. The Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy, a Chinese technology demonstrator satellite, was launched in 2022. The Chinese Einstein Probe, launched in 2024, is the first major space telescope to use lobster-eye optics. Several other such space telescopes are currently under development or consideration.

Description

Close-up view of crustacean's (mantis shrimp's) eyes

While most animals have refractive eyes, lobsters and other crustaceans have reflective eyes.[2] The eyes of a crustacean contain clusters of cells, each reflecting a small amount of light from a particular direction. Lobster-eye optics technology mimics this reflective structure. This arrangement allows the light from a wide viewing area to be focused into a single image. The optics are made of microchannel plates. X-ray light can enter small tubes within these plates from multiple angles, and is focused through grazing-incidence reflection that gives a wide field of view. That, in turn, makes it possible to locate and image transient astronomical events that could not have been predicted in advance.[3]

The field of view (FoV) of a lobster-eye optic, which is the solid angle subtended by the optic plate to the curvature center, is limited only by the optic size for a given curvature radius. Since the micropore optics are spherically symmetric in essentially all directions, theoretically, an idealized lobster-eye optic is almost free from vignetting except near the edge of the FoV.[4] Micropore imagers are created from several layers of lobster-eye optics that creates an approximation of Wolter type-I optical design.[2]

History

Only three geometries that use grazing incidence reflection of X-rays to produce X-ray images are known: the Wolter system, the Kirkpatrick-Baez system, and the lobster-eye geometry.[5]

The lobster-eye X-ray optics design was first proposed in 1979 by Roger Angel.[6][7] His design is based on Kirkpatrick-Baez optics, but requires pores with a square cross-section, and is referred to as the "Angel multi-channel lens".[5] This design was inspired directly by the reflective properties of lobster eyes.[1][4] Before Angel, an alternative design involving a one-dimensional arrangement consisting of a set of flat reflecting surfaces had been proposed by W. K. H. Schmidt in 1975, known as the "Schmidt focusing collimator objective".[5][8][9] In 1989, physicists Keith Nugent and Stephen W. Wilkins collaborated to develop lobster-eye optics independently of Angel. Their key contribution was to open up an approach to manufacturing these devices using microchannel plate technology. This lobster-eye approach paved the way for X-ray telescopes with a 360-degree view of the sky.[10]

In 1992, Philip E. Kaaret and Phillip Geissbuehler proposed a new method for creating lobster-eye optics with microchannel plates.[11] Micropores required for lobster-eye optics are difficult to manufacture and have strict requirements. The pores must have widths between 0.01 and 0.5 mm and should have a length-to-width ratio of 20–200 (depends on the X-ray energy range); they need to be coated with a dense material for optimal X-ray reflection. The pore's inner walls must be flat and they should be organized in a dense array on a spherical surface with a radius of curvature of 2F, ensuring an open fraction greater than 50% and pore alignment accuracy between 0.1 and 5 arc minutes towards a common center.[5]

Similar optics designs include honeycomb collimators (used in NEAR Shoemaker's XGRS detectors and MESSENGER's XRS) and silicon pore imagers (developed by ESA for its planned ATHENA mission).[2]

Uses

Configuration of the focusing mirror system, focal detector array, and FoV of LEIA. The mirror assembly is divided into four individual quadrants, each consisting of 3 × 3 MPO plates and associated with one of the four detectors.[4]
The LEIA instrument undergoing on-ground X-ray calibration before being assembled onto the SATech satellite.[4]

NASA launched the first lobster-eye imager on a Black Brant IX sub-orbital sounding rocket in 2012. The STORM/DXL instrument (Sheath Transport Observer for the Redistribution of Mass/Diffuse X-ray emission from the Local galaxy) had micropore reflectors arranged in an array to form a Kirkpatrick-Baez system.[12][13] BepiColombo, a joint ESA and JAXA Mercury mission launched in 2018, has a non-imaging collimator MIXS-C, with a microchannel geometry similar to the lobster-eye micropore design.[8][14]

CNSA launched the Lobster-Eye X-ray Satellite in 2020, the first in-orbit lobster-eye telescope.[15] In 2022, the Chinese Academy of Sciences built and launched the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA), a wide-field X-ray imaging space telescope. It is a technology demonstrator mission that tests the sensor design for the Einstein Probe.[16] LEIA has a sensor module that gives it a field of view of 340 square degrees.[16] In August and September of 2022, LEIA conducted measurements to verify its functionality. A number of preselected sky regions and targets were observed, including the Galactic Center, the Magellanic Clouds, Sco X-1, Cas A, Cygnus Loop, and a few extragalactic sources. To eliminate interference from sunlight, the observations were obtained in Earth's shadow, starting 2 minutes after the satellite entered the shadow and ending 10 minutes before leaving it, resulting in an observational duration of ~23 minutes in each orbit. The CMOS detectors were operating in the event mode.[4]

  • First-light X-ray image of the Galactic center region obtained by LEIA in a one-shot observation of 798 s in 0.5–4 keV, covering a field of view of 18° × 18° (left). Colors represent counts per pixel.[4]
    First-light X-ray image of the Galactic center region obtained by LEIA in a one-shot observation of 798 s in 0.5–4 keV, covering a field of view of 18° × 18° (left). Colors represent counts per pixel.[4]
  • Left: X-ray image of Sco X-1 in 0.5–4 keV observed by LEIA with 673 s exposure. Right: X-ray image of the Cygnus Loop nebula with a diameter of ~2fdg5 obtained with a 604 s observation. Colors represent photon energies.[4]
    Left: X-ray image of Sco X-1 in 0.5–4 keV observed by LEIA with 673 s exposure. Right: X-ray image of the Cygnus Loop nebula with a diameter of ~2fdg5 obtained with a 604 s observation. Colors represent photon energies.[4]

Current and future space telescopes

The Einstein Probe, a joint mission by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, was launched on 9 January 2024.[17] It uses a 12-sensor module wide-field X-ray telescope for a 3600 square degree field of view, first tested by the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy mission.[16]

NASA's Goddard Space Center proposed an instrument that uses the lobster-eye design for the ISS-TAO mission (Transient Astrophysics Observatory on the International Space Station), called the X-ray Wide-Field Imager.[3] ISS-Lobster is a similar concept by ESA.[18]

Several space telescopes that use lobster-eye optics are under construction. The joint French-Chinese SVOM is expected to be launched in July 2024.[19] SMILE, a space telescope project by ESA and CAS, is planned to be launched in 2025.[20] ESA's THESEUS is now under consideration.[21]

Other uses

Lobster-eye optics can also be used for backscattering imaging for homeland security, detection of improvised explosive devices, nondestructive testing, and medical imaging.[1]

References

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