Development of active/adaptive lightweight optics for the next generation of telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6148, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ghigo, M ^a   Basso, S ^a   Citterio, O ^a   Mazzoleni, F ^a   Vernani, D ^a  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ELT; Ion beam figuring; Segmented optics; Slumping

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CERAMIC PRODUCTS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; GLASS; OPTICS;

ELT; INAF-ARCETRI (FLORENCE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY); ION BEAM FIGURING; LIGHTWEIGHT OPTICS; SEGMENTED OPTICS; SLUMPING;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33645233967     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.674055     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. "X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy: the XEUS mission summary", ESA SP-1242, 2000 (See also the XEUS WWW page at: http://astro.estec.esa.nl/SA-general/Projects/XEUS/).
2. M. Bavdaz, A. J. Peacock, A. Parmar, M. W. Beijersbergen, B. Aschenbach,H. W. Brauninger, R. Willingale "Status of the optics for the X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy mission (XEUS)", SPIE Proc., 4012, 306, (2000).
3. "X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy: The XEUS telescope", ESA SP-1253, (2001)
4. G. Gallieni, E. Anaclerio, P. Lazzarini, A. Ripamonti, S. Spairani, C. Del vecchio, P. Salinari, A. Riccardi, P. Stefanini, and R. Biasi, "LBT adaptive secondary units final design and construction", SPIE Proc., 4839, pp. 765-771, 2002.
5. C. Del Vecchio, G. Gallieni, H. M. Martin, A. Riccardi, G. Brusa, and R. Biasi, "Design improvements of the LBT adaptive secondary", in Beyond Conventional Adaptive Optics, vol. 58, pp. 435-441, 2001.
6. G. Brusa and C. Del Vecchio, "Designing an adaptive secondary mirror: a global approach", Applied Optics 37(21), pp. 4656-4662, 1998.
7. Citterio O., Ghigo M., Mazzoleni F., Pareschi G., Parodi G., B. Aschenbach, H. Braeuninger, P. Friedrich, T. Doehring, H.Esemann, R.Jedamzik, E. Hoelzel, "Large-size glass segments for the production of the XEUS X-ray mirrors: basic ideas and concepts", 2002, SPIE Proc., 4851.
8. Citterio, O., Ghigo, M., Mazzoleni, F., Pareschi, G., Aschenbach, B., Bräuninger, H., Friedrich, P., Hasinger, G., Döhring, T., Esemann, H., Jedamzik, R., Hoelzl, E., Parodi, G., "The manufacturing of XEUS X-ray glass segmented mirrors: status of investigation and last results", 2004, Proc. SPIE v. 5168, p. 180
9. Thorsen Doring, Ralf Jedamzik, Peter Hartmann, Hauke Esemann, Clemens Kunisch, "Forming mandrels for X-ray telescopes made of modified Zerodur", 2004, Proc. SPIE v.5168, p. 148
10. Zhang, W., Content, D., Saha, T., Petre, R., O'Dell, S., Jones, W., Davis, W., Podgorsky, W, "Development of X-ray reflectors for the Constellation-X Observatory", 2004, Proc. SPIE, v. 5168, p. 168
11. Petre, R., Content, D., Lehan, J., O'Dell, S., Owens, S., Podgorsky, W., Steward, J., Zhang, W., "The Constellation-X Spectroscopy X-ray Telescope", 2004, Proc. SPIE, v. 5488, p. 505