Characterization of the lightweight telescope developed for the NPOI

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Andrews, Jonathan R ^a   Penado, F Ernesto ^b   Broome, Scott T ^b   Wilcox, Christopher C ^a   Restaino, Sergio R ^a   Martinez, Ty ^a   Teare, Scott W ^c   Santiago, Freddie ^d  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Carbon fiber; Instrumentation; Lightweight; Telescope; Telescope characterization; Telescope optics

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTATION; NAVAL PROTOTYPE OPTICAL INTERFEROMETER (NPOI); TELESCOPE CHARACTERIZATION; TELESCOPE OPTICS;

CARBON FIBERS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; INTERFEROMETERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749033632     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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