Optical design of the coronal diagnostic spectrometer (an instrument on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2311-2319

  Lidiard, Kate A ^b,c,d   Gray, Peter F ^a,b,e,f,g  

^a SPIE   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e Brighton College of Technology   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Grubb Parsons   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy; Grazing incidence optics; Solar physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010808668     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601457     Document Type: Article

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