Developmental cryogenic active telescope testbed, a wavefront sensing and control testbed for the next generation space telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3356, Issue , 1998, Pages 1168-1178

  Le Boeuf, Claudia M ^a   Davila, Pamela S ^a   Redding, David C ^b   Morell, Armando ^a   Lowman, Andrew E ^b   WilSOn, Mark E ^a   Young, Eric W ^a   Pacini, Linda K ^a   Coulter, Dan R ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Hexapod; NGST; Segmented optics; Stewart platforms; Wavefront control; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICS; HEXAPOD; NGST; SEGMENTED OPTICS; STEWART PLATFORMS; WAVE FRONT CONTROL; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

ALGORITHMS; CRYOGENICS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TESTING; OPTICS; SIMULATORS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS; ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

TESTBEDS; AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

ACTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRIC WAVEFRONT SENSORS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0032291399     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.324517     Document Type: Conference Paper

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