Optical design and tolerances of wide field imagers for astronomical survey

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5173, Issue , 2003, Pages 87-98

  Thibault, Simon ^a   Lacoursière, Jean ^a   Doucet, Michel ^a   Wang, Min ^a   Reecht, Jérôme ^a  

^a INO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Astronomical survey; Broadband; Catadioptric; Focal reducer; Optical design; Wide field

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CRYOGENICS; FUNCTIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; INSTALLATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL SURVEYS; FOCAL REDUCERS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; WIDE-FIELD IMAGERS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 2342558682     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.504597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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