Rugged adaptive telescope secondaries: Experience with a demonstrator mirror

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 872-878

  Walker, David D ^a,b   Lee, Jun Ho ^a   Bingham, Richard G ^a,b   Brooks, David ^a   Dryburgh, Mark ^a   Nixon, Gilbert ^a   Jamshidi, Heshmat O ^a   Kim, Sug Whan ^a,b   Bigelow, Bruce C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Optical Generics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Aluminium; Magnetostrictive; Secondary

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE; ADAPTIVE CORRECTIONS; ALUMINIUM; IR EMISSIVITIES; LABORATORY TESTING; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE; SECONDARY;

ALUMINUM; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; TELESCOPES; ACTUATORS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICAL CORRECTION; INFRARED EMISSIVITY; SEVEN ACTUATOR DEMONSTRATOR MIRROR;

EID: 0032271834     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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