Diffraction effects from giant segmented-mirror telescopes

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3745-3753

  Troy, Mitchell ^a   Chanan, Gary ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MIRRORS;

DIFFRACTION SPIKES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0041808817     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003745     Document Type: Article

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