Radiation qualification and testing of a large number of optical glasses used in the ESA fluid science laboratory on board the columbus orbital facility of the international space station

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4823, Issue , 2002, Pages 124-131

  Doyle, Dominic ^a   Dewandre, Thierry ^a   Claessens, Dirk ^b   De Cock, Ellen ^b   Vautmans, Luc ^b   Dupont, Olivier ^c   Gusarov, Andrei ^d  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b Lambda X ^*  (Belgium)

^c Multitel Telecom ^*  (Belgium)

^d Multitel   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fluid science lab; International space station; Radiation effects; Space optics

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; PHASE SHIFT; RADIATION EFFECTS; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE STATIONS; SPECKLE; USER INTERFACES;

MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH; OPTICAL BENCH;

OPTICAL GLASS;

EID: 0036989853     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452227     Document Type: Article

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