Development of a carbon fiber composite active mirror: Design and testing

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Kendrew, Sarah ^a,d   Doel, Peter ^a   Brooks, David ^a   Dorn, Chris ^b   Yates, Chris ^b   Dwan, Richard M ^b   Richardson, Ian ^c   Evans, Glynn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^c Cobham Composites ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d Optical Science Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active optics; Imaging systems; Materials; Optical fabrication; Space optics; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICS; CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MIRROR; DEFORMABLE MIRROR; OPTICAL FABRICATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE OPTICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33748586746     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2179771     Document Type: Article

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