Control and support of 4-meter class secondary and tertiary mirrors for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Blanco, Dan ^a   Cho, Myung ^a   Daggert, Larry ^a   Daly, Phil ^a   DeVries, Joe ^a   Elias, Jonathan ^a   Fitz Patrick, Bruce ^a   Hileman, Ed ^a   Hunten, Mark ^a   Liang, Ming ^a   Nickerson, Mark ^a   Pearson, Earl ^a   Rosin, Dave ^a   Sirota, Mark ^b   Stepp, Larry ^b  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b TMT Project Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulation; Extremely large telescopes; Figure control; Hexapod; Mirror support

Indexed keywords

FIGURE CONTROL; HEXAPOD; PARTNERSHIP; SECONDARY MIRROR; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE;

DEFORMATION; INFRARED DEVICES; MIRRORS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749032925     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672626     Document Type: Conference Paper

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