Techniques and tools for obtaining symmetrical performance from tilted-component systems

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1776-1787

  Rogers, John R ^a  

^a OPTICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

TILTED-COMPONENT SYSTEMS; ZERNIKE COEFFICIENTS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0034227537     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602557     Document Type: Article

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