Rapid fabrication of lightweight silicon carbide mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4771, Issue , 2002, Pages 243-253

  Johnson, John S ^a   Grobsky, Kevin ^a   Bray, Donald J ^a  

^a Poco Graphite Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

MRF; Optical fabrication; Polishing; Silicon carbide

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL MATERIALS; POLISHING; SILICON CARBIDE; STIFFNESS;

OPTICAL FABRICATION; SILICON CARBIDE OPTICS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0036454252     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.482166     Document Type: Article

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