Support of large borosilicate honeycomb mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2199, Issue , 1994, Pages 691-702

  Gray, P M ^a   Hill, J M ^a   Davison, W B ^a   Callahan, S P ^a   Williams, J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS; POLISHING; SPECIFICATIONS;

ATTACHMENT POINTS; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; FORCE ACTUATORS; LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE; LARGE TELESCOPES; MIRROR SUPPORTS; SUPPORT STRUCTURES; SURFACE FIGURE ACCURACIES;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0000485164     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.176238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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