Review of Corning's capabilities for ULE® mirror blank manufacturing for an extremely large telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  VanBrocklin, Randy R ^a   Edwards, Mary J ^a   Wells, Bruce ^a  

^a Corning Incorporated ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Boule; ELT (Extremely Large Telescopes); Hexagonal; Mirror Blank; Monolithic; Segment; ULE

Indexed keywords

BOULE; ELT (EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES); MIRROR BLANK; ULE®;

ASTRONOMY; GLASS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MIRRORS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749586173     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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