Active optics: Vase or meniscus multimode mirrors and degenerated monomode configurations

Meccanica

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 233-249

  Lemaître, Gérard R ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE MARSEILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Active optics; Aspheric mirrors; Elasticity; Multimode deformable mirrors; Optical aberrations

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ELASTICITY; FORCE MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRY; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICS;

ACTIVE OPTICS; ASPHERIC MIRRORS; MULTIMODE DEFORMABLE MIRRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 24344467865     PISSN: 00256455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11012-005-4664-7     Document Type: Article

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