The DARWIN breadboard optical delay line verification programme

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6268 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Van Den Dool, T C ^a   Kamphues, F ^a   Gielesen, W ^a   Benoit, J ^b   Laurenceau, E ^b   Poupinet, A ^c   Seve F ^c   Stockman, Y ^d   Fleury, K ^d   Loix, N ^e   Kooijman, P P ^f   De Vries, C ^f   Van Weers, H ^f   Velsink, G ^g  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b THALES ALENIA SPACE   (France)

^c SAGEIS CSO   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^e Micromega Dynamics   (Belgium)

^f SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^g AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active magnetic bearings; Aperture synthesis; Cryogenic; DARWIN; Nano positioning; Nulling interferometry; ODL; Optical delay line; PEGASE; TPF I; Verification programme

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; HYSTERESIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MAGNETIC BEARINGS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE MAGNETIC BEARINGS; APERTURE SYNTHESIS; BREADBOARD (BB) DELAY LINES; NANO POSITIONING; NULLING INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL DELAY LINES (ODL); OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE (OPD); VERIFICATION PROGRAMME;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33749254223     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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