Optical phased array configuration for an extremely large telescope

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 601-607

  Meinel, Aden Baker ^a   Meinel, Marjorie Pettit ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

COLLIMATED BEAM; MULTIPLE MIRROR TELESCOPE; OPTICAL PHASED ARRAY;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 1142267449     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.000601     Document Type: Article

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