Optical tests of a 3.7-m-diameter liquid mirror: Behavior under external perturbations

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 31, 2000, Pages 5651-5662

  Tremblay, Grégoire ^a   Borra, Ermanno F ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALL BEARINGS; MERCURY (METAL); TURBULENCE; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

LIQUID MIRRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0010811196     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005651     Document Type: Article

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