Precessions aspheric polishing: - New results from the development programme

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5180, Issue , 2003, Pages 15-28

  Walker, D D ^a,b   Beaucamp, A T H ^b   Bingham, R G ^a   Brooks, D ^a   Freeman, R ^b   Kim, S W ^c   King, A ^a   McCavana, G ^b   Morton, R ^b   Riley, D ^b   Simms, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ZEEKO LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; POLISHING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ASPHERIC POLISHING; FULLY AUTOMATED POLISHING PROCESS; PRECESSIONS; VOLUMETRIC REMOVAL RATES;

ASPHERICS;

EID: 11144354048     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

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2. "The Precessions process for efficient production of aspheric optics for large telescopes and their instrumentation" D.D. Walker, A.T.H. Beaucamp, R.G. Bingham, D. Brooks, R. Freeman, S.W. Kim, A. King, G. McCavana, R. Morton, D. Riley, J. Simms, Proc. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Meeting, Hawaii, 2002, Vol. 4842, pp73-84
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