Parabolic liquid mirrors in optical shop testing

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 31, 1996, Pages 6131-6139

  Ninane, Nathalie M ^a   Jamar, Claude A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Liquid mirrors; Optical metrology; Surface error measurements

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ANTENNAS; CALCULATIONS; INTERFEROMETERS; LENSES; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MERCURY (METAL); OPTICAL TESTING; ROTATION; SURFACES; WAVEFRONTS;

FOCAL LENGTH; HARTMANN TEST METHOD; NULL CORRECTORS; OPTICAL SHOP TESTING; PARABOLIC LIQUID MIRRORS; WAVEFRONT ERRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0030288751     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.006131     Document Type: Article

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