Deformable mirrors for high-power lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4493, Issue , 2002, Pages 55-63

  Sinha, Supriyo ^a   Mansell, Justin D ^a   Byer, Robert L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Deformable mirrors; High power; Lasers; LIGO; Multi layer dielectric; Thermal loading

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DISTORTION (WAVES); HIGH POWER LASERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT REFLECTION;

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; INCIDENT INTENSITY; LASER INTERFEROMETER GRAVITATIONAL WAVE OBSERVATORY; LASER POWER; STATIC ABERRATIONS; THERMAL LOADING;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0036397934     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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