Twenty meter space telescope based on diffractive Fresnel lens

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5166, Issue , 2004, Pages 148-156

  Early, Jim ^a   Hyde, Rod ^a   Baron, Richard ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SPACECRAFT;

DIFFRACTIVE FRESNEL LENS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 1842639243     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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