Advances in very lightweight composite mirror technology

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2320-2329

  Chen, Peter C ^a,d   Bowers, C W ^b   Content, David A ^b   Marzouk, Marzouk ^b   Romeo, R C ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University ^*  (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ACTUATORS; GRAPHITE FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICS; SPACE OPTICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ACTIVE OPTICS; COMPOSITE REPLICA MIRRORS; ION MILLING; LIGHTWEIGHT OPTICS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0034269208     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1288125     Document Type: Article

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