Eyeglass: A very large aperture diffractive space telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4849, Issue , 2002, Pages 28-39

  Hyde, Roderick ^a   Dixit, Shamasundar ^a   Weisberg, Andrew ^a   Rushford, Michael ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; EYEGLASSES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SILICA; SPACECRAFT;

DIFFRACTIVE TELESCOPES;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037967289     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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