Control of the California extremely large telescope primary mirror

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 69-80

  MacMartin, Douglas G ^a   Chanan, Gary ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CELT; Extremely Large Telescopes; Segmented Mirror Control

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SENSORS; WAVEFRONTS;

SEGMENTED MIRROR CONTROL;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038664234     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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