Kirkpatrick baez spectrograph concepts for future space missions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6266 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Osterman, Steve ^a   Cash, Webster ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Grazing incidence; Kirkpatrick Baez; Spectrograph; X ray

Indexed keywords

GRAZING INCIDENCE; KIRKPATRICK-BAEZ; MULTIPLE MIRROR BANK CONFIGURATIONS;

OPTICAL DEVICES; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECTROGRAPHS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 33749018230     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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