Manufacturing and testing of the primary mirror unit for the ESO VLTI auxiliary telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 600-608

  Flebus, Carlo ^a   Quertemont, Eric ^a   Cola, Marcel ^a  

^a Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems AMOS Sa   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Lightweighting; Mirror support; Null corrector; Optical manufacturing; Optical testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TESTING;

MIRROR INTEGRATION;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038636037     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456778     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. B. Koehler, C. Flebus, "VLTI Auxiliary Telescopes", SPIE Proceedings, 4006, Munich, 2000.
2. N. Ninane, C. A. Jamar, "Parabolic liquid mirrors in optical shop testing", Appl.Opt., 35, No 31, 1996.
3. J. H. Burge, "A null test for null correctors : error analysis", SPIE Proceedings, 1993, p. 86, San Diego (CA), 1993.