High accuracy, absolute, cryogenic refractive index measurements of infrared lens materials.pdfVIP

High accuracy, absolute, cryogenic refractive index measurements of infrared lens materials for JWST NIRCam using CHARMS Douglas B. Levitona*, Bradley J. Freya, Todd Kvammeb aNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 bLockheed Martin Corporation, Palo Alto, CA 94304 ABSTRACT The refractive optical design of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) uses three infrared materials in its lenses: LiF, BaF2, and ZnSe. In order to provide the instrument’s optical designers with accurate, heretofore unavailable data for absolute refractive ind