Effects of airborne particles on optical equipment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1283-1289

  Gorgievska, I ^a   Steinebach, C M ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust; Mirror cleaning; Mirror contamination; MRO; Particles; Shutdown criteria

Indexed keywords

DUST PARTICLES; MIRROR CLEANING; MIRROR CONTAMINATION; MRO; SHUTDOWN CRITERIA;

LIGHT SCATTERING; MIRRORS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REFLECTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 11144281769     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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