Optical issues for giant telescopes with extremely fast primary mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 226-237

  Burge, J H ^a   Martin, H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical optics; Optical fabrication; Telescope

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; RADIO TELESCOPES;

GIANT OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038752046     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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