Large sparse-aperture space optical systems

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1983-1994

  Meinel, Aden Baker ^a   Meinel, Marjorie Pettit ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apertures; Optical systems; Space optics

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FABRICATION; OPTIMIZATION; SPACE OPTICS;

SPARSE-APERTURE CONFIGURATIONS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036670658     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1490557     Document Type: Article

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7. Point arrays having compact non-redundant autocorrelations
8. MAT diffraction patterns
9. Anastigmatic three-mirror telescope
10. Wavefront sensing and control for a next generation space telescope
11. Extrapolating HST lessons to NGST