Imaging with four spherical mirrors

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 3232-3242

  Howard, Joseph M ^a,b   Stone, Bryan D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Tropel Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); IMAGING SYSTEMS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZERS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0000138860     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.003232     Document Type: Article

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