Design and manufacture of a lightweight reflective baffle for the BepiColombo laser altimeter

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Seiferlin, Karsten ^a   Chakraborty, Sumita ^a   Gunderson, Kurt ^a   Fischer, Josef ^a   Lÿuthi, Benjamin ^a   Piazza, Daniele ^a   Rieder, Martin ^a   Sigrist, Martin ^a   Thomas, Nicolas ^a   Weigel, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Oerlikon Space AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Geometric optics; Laser applications; Space research

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LASER OPTICS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE RESEARCH; STRAY LIGHT; THERMAL LOAD;

APERTURE; DIAMOND TURNING; REFLECTIVE BAFFLE;

SPACE OPTICS;

EID: 34250788855     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2722314     Document Type: Article

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