Corning's approach to segment blank manufacturing for an extremely large telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5494, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-8

  VanBrocklin, Randy R ^a   Hobbs, Thomas W ^a   Edwards, Mary J ^a  

^a Corning Incorporated ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Boule; ELT (Extremely Large Telescopes); Hexagonal; Mirror Blank; Segment; ULE

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COSTS; FUSED SILICA; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MIRRORS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

BOULE; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES (ELT); HEXAGONAL; MIRROR BLANK; SEGMENT BLANK MANUFACTURING;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444290680     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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