Design and analysis for interferometric measurements of the GMT primary mirror segments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Burge, J H ^a   Kot, L B ^a   Martin, H M ^a   Zehnder, R ^a   Zhao, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspheres; Optical fabrication; Optical testing; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAM (CGH); GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPE (GMT); OPTICAL FABRICATION; POWERED MIRROR;

ASPHERICS; HOLOGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TESTING;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749618150     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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