Optical design of a hollow cube-corner retroreflector for a geosynchronous satellite

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1459-1463

  Minato, Atsushi ^a   Ozawa, Satoru ^a   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^b  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

RETROREFLECTORS;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

EID: 0037827019     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001459     Document Type: Article

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