Polarization shearing laser interferometer for aligning segmented telescope mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 764-775

  Wolf, Marsha J ^a   Ward, Michael H ^b   Booth, John A ^a   Roman, Brian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alignment; CCAS; HET; Hobby Eberly; Interferometer; Polarization; Primary mirror; Segmented

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ALIGNMENT; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COHERENT LIGHT; HELIUM NEON LASERS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHTING; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHASE SHIFT; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SENSORS;

POLARIZATION SHEARING LASER INTEFEROMETERS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0038522879     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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