Differentiating secondary mirror tilt and decenter through off-axis wavefront sensing and aberration measurement

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  DiVittorio, Michael ^a  

^a FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aberrations; Alignment; Collimation; Decenter; Tilt; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

DECENTER; SECONDARY MIRROR; TILT; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ABERRATIONS; ALIGNMENT; CALCULATIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749587606     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672856     Document Type: Conference Paper

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