Canadian very large optical telescope technical studies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 104-115

  Roberts, Scott ^b   Morbey, Christopher ^b   Crabtree, Dennis ^b   Carlberg, Ray ^a   Crampton, David ^b   Davidge, Tim ^b   Fitzsimmons, Joeleff ^b   Gedig, Mike ^c   Halliday, David ^c   Hesser, James E ^b   Herriot, Glen ^b   Oke, J B ^b   Pazder, John ^b   Szeto, Kei ^b   Veran, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Integrated model; Large optical telescope; Mirror segmentation; Silicon carbide

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; MIRRORS; SILICON CARBIDE;

LARGE OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037650069     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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