A swing arm profilometer for large telescope mirror element metrology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Callender, M J ^a   Efstathiou, A ^a   King, C W ^a   Walker, D D ^a,b   Gee, A E ^a   Lewis, A J ^c   Oldfield, S ^c   Steel, R M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ZEEKO LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asphere; Extremely large telescope; Metrology; Swing arm profilometer

Indexed keywords

ARM DESIGN; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE; SOLARTRON LINEAR ENCODE; SWING ARM PROFILOMETER;

ASPHERICS; INTERFEROMETERS; MEASUREMENTS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PROFILOMETRY;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749596569     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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