Cost-effective, subaperture approaches to finishing and testing astronomical optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tricard, Marc ^a   Shorey, Aric ^a   Hailock, Bob ^a   Murphy, Paul ^a  

^a QED TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Asphere; Cycle time; Deterministic polishing; Lightweight; Magnetorheological; MRF; SSI; Sub aperture stitching interferometry

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL OPTICS; DETERMINISTIC POLISHING; MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FINISHING (MRF); SUB APERTURE STITCHING INTERFEROMETRY (SSI);

ASTRONOMY; INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE SHIFT; POLISHING; PRECISION ENGINEERING;

OPTICS;

EID: 33749593161     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672385     Document Type: Conference Paper

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