Aplanatic four-mirror system for optical telescopes with a spherical primary mirror

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2334-2341

  Puryayev, Daniil T ^a,b,c,d   Gontcharov, Alexander V ^a,e  

^a BAUMAN MOSCOW STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c Applied Optics Department   (Russian Federation)

^d MSTU   (Russian Federation)

^e SPIE ^*

Author keywords

Aplanatic and anastigmatic system; Aspheric mirrors; Telescope

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038264013     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602031     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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3. R. N. Wilson, B. Delabre and F. Franza, "A new 4-mirror optical concept for very large telescopes with spherical primary and secondary mirrors, giving excellent field and obstruction characteristics," Proc. SPIE 2199, 1052-1062 (1994).
4. D. T. Puryayev, "Concept for a telescope optical system with a 10-m-diam spherical primary mirror," Opt. Eng. 35(7), 2017-2020 (1996).