Fabrication and alignment issues for segmented mirror telescopes

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2632-2642

  Pan, Feenix Y ^a   Burge, James H ^a   Zehnder, Rene ^a   Wang, Yanqui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b HEBEI GEO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HOLOGRAMS; MIRRORS; PISTONS; SERVOMECHANISMS;

GAUSSIAN VARIABLES; MIRROR TELESCOPES; MONOLITHIC MIRRORS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 2442445153     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002632     Document Type: Article

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