Nanoengineered parabolic liquid mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Borra, E F ^a   Brousseau, D ^a   Gagne G ^a   Faucher, L ^a   Ritcey, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mirrors; Optical elements; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

COATING LIQUIDS; PARABOLIC MIRRORS; REFLECTIVE SURFACES; ROTATING MIRRORS;

GLYCEROL; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MERCURY (METAL); NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REFLECTIVE COATINGS; ROBOTS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33749661377     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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