Improved cryogenic aluminum mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3435, Issue , 1998, Pages 9-18

  Vukobratovich, Daniel ^a   Don, Ken ^a   Sumner, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi metallic bending; Cryogenic optics; Dimensional stability; Metal mirrors

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM PLATING; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CRYOGENIC ALUMINUM MIRRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0032401398     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.323735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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