JWST-MIRI spectrometer main optics alignment & tolerancing philosophy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6676, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kroes, Gabby ^a   Meijers, Michael ^a   Oudenhuysen, Ad ^a   Pel, Jan Willem ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

JWST; MIRI; Optical alignment; Spectrometer

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICS; SPECTROMETERS;

ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENTS; MID INFRARED INSTRUMENT; OPTICAL ALIGNMENT;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 42149113434     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.733843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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