The alignment and phasing system for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chanan, Gary ^a   Troy, Mitchell ^b   Crossfield, Ian ^b   Nelson, Jerry ^c   Mast, Terry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical alignment; Phasing; Segmented mirrors; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL ALIGNMENT; PHASING CAMERA SYSTEM (PCS); SEGMENTED MIRRORS; TELESCOPE ALIGNMENT;

ABERRATIONS; ASTRONOMY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL DESIGN;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749002542     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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