Variable curvature mirrors for the VLTI

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3350, Issue , 1998, Pages 830-838

  Ferrari, Marc ^a   Derie, Frederic ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active optic; Elasticity; Interferometry; Mirror

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; ELASTICITY; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PROGRAMMING THEORY; STAINLESS STEEL; SURFACE TESTING; TELESCOPES;

A PLANE; ACTIVE DEVICES; ACTIVE OPTIC; BEAM COMBINERS; CURVATURE (SORI); CURVATURE MIRRORS; DELAY LINE (DL); ELASTICITY THEORY; EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY (ESO); HIGH PRECISION; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM STRESS; MIRROR; SURFACE QUALITIES; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS; VERY LARGE TELESCOPE (VLT);

OPTICAL TESTING;

EID: 0037994628     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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