Fabrication of mirrors for the Magellan telescopes and the large binocular telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 609-618

  Martin, H M ^a   Allen, R G ^a   Burge, J H ^a   Dettmann, L R ^a   Ketelsen, D A ^a   Miller, S M ^a   Sasian, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspheres; Optical fabrication; Optical testing; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICS; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION; FABRICATION; HOLOGRAMS; MIRRORS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TESTING; POLISHING;

OPTICAL FABRICATION;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038752039     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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