Medium-precision null-screen testing of off-axis parabolic mirrors for segmented primary telescope optics: The large millimeter telescope

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2790-2804

  íaz Uribe, Rufino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; LENSES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

PARABOLIC MIRRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0037963516     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002790     Document Type: Article

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