Active supports and force optimization for the MMT primary mirror

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3352, Issue , 1998, Pages 412-423

  Martin, H M ^a   Callahan, S P ^a   Cuerden, B ^a   Davison, W B ^a   DeRigne, S T ^a   Dettmann, L R ^a   Parodi, G ^a   Trebisky, T J ^a   West, S C ^a   Williams, J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ACTUATORS; ALIGNMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MIRRORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION;

ACTIVE OPTICS; MULTIPLE MIRROR TELESCOPE CONVERSION; PRIMARY MIRROR;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0002690294     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.319262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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