Design review of flexure focus stage for the Gemini telescope near-infrared imager

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3354, Issue , 1998, Pages 1062-1067

  Douglass, Jeffrey W ^a   Young, Tony T ^a   Hodapp, Klaus Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound flexure; Flexure; Rectilinear; Stiffness; Translation stage

Indexed keywords

AXIS-TRANSLATION; COMPOUND FLEXURE; CRYOGENIC VACUUM; DESIGN REVIEW; DETECTOR ARRAYS; FLEXURE; FLEXURE DESIGNS; GEMINI TELESCOPES; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-IR; RECTILINEAR; STABILITY REQUIREMENTS; SUBMICRON; TRANSLATION STAGE; TRANSVERSE DEFLECTION;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CRYOGENICS; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROMETERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TELESCOPES;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 0037798753     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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4. A. Tokunaga et al, "An Infrared Camera and Spectograph for the Subaru Telescope", SPIE 3354, 1998.