Extremely compact secondary mirror unit for the SOFIA telescope capable of 6-degree-of-freedom alignment plus chopping

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3352, Issue , 1998, Pages 666-674

  Zago, Lorenzo ^a   Genequand, Pierre ^a   Moerschell, Joseph ^a  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active secondary unit; Chopping; Flexure structures; Secondary mirror

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FOCUSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POSITION CONTROL; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

ACTIVE SECONDARY UNIT; CHOPPING; FLEXURE STRUCTURES; SECONDARY MIRROR UNIT; STRATOSPHERIC OBSERVATORY FOR INFRARED ASTRONOMY;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0032404245     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.319276     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (1)

1. Application of flexure concepts to active and adaptive optomechanical mechanisms