Fabrication of large-aperture lightweight diffractive lenses for use in space

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 447-451

  Barton, Ian M ^a,b   Britten, Jerald A ^a   Dixit, Shamasundar N ^a   Summers, Leslie J ^a   Thomas, Ian M ^a   Rushford, Michael C ^a   Lu, Katy ^a   Hyde, Roderick A ^a   Perry, Michael D ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; ETCHING; FUSED SILICA; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES; TELESCOPES;

DIFFRACTIVE LENSES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 0000341413     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000447     Document Type: Article

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