Optically-athermalized construction optical design for the IMACS short camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 612-621

  Epps, Harland W ^a   Sutin, Brian M ^b  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Athermalized; Camera; IMACS; Lens; Reimaging; Spectrograph

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; GLASS; IMAGE QUALITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROGRAPHS;

SHORT CAMERAS;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 0037799899     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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