Segmented mirror coarse phasing with white light interferometry: Modeling and experiment on NGST's wavefront control testbed

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4850, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 380-387

  Shi, Fang ^a   Redding, David C ^a   Lowman, Andrew E ^a   Ohara, Catherine M ^a   Burns, Laura A ^b   Petrone III, Peter ^c   Bowers, Charles W ^d   Basinger, Scott A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c ManTech Syst Eng Corporation   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Segmented mirror; Space telescope; Wavefront sensing and control; White light interferometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS;

WAVEFRONT CONTROL TESTBED (WCT);

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038633260     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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