Compact two-mirror schemes for telescopes with a fast spherical primary

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1692-1696

  Puryayev, Daniil T ^a,c   Gontcharov, Alexander V ^b  

^a BAUMAN MOSCOW STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; FOCUSING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL ROTATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ASPHERICAL PRIMARY; COMPACT TWO MIRROR SCHEMES; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE TELESCOPES;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0034206713     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602546     Document Type: Article

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