Active optics and modified-Rumsey wide-field telescopes: Minitrust demonstrators with vase- And tulip-form mirrors

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 34, 2005, Pages 7322-7332

  Lemaître, Gérard R ^a   Montiel, Pierre ^a   Joulié, Patrice ^a   Dohlen, Kjetil ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE MARSEILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED RADIATION; LENSES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ACTIVE OPTICS; SPACE TELESCOPE; SURVEY TELESCOPES; TULIP-FORM MIRRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 29344448900     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007322     Document Type: Article

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