Active X-ray mirror development at UCL: Preliminary results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6721, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Atkins, Carolyn ^a   Doel, Peter ^a   Jun, Yao ^d   Brooks, David ^a   Thompson, Samantha ^a   Willingale, Richard ^b   Feldman, Charlotte ^b   Button, Tim ^c   Dou, Zhang ^c   James, Ady ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Piezoelectric actuators; Thin active mirrors; X ray astronomy; X ray telescopes

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL SAG; NICKEL ELLIPSOID SEGMENT; THIN ACTIVE MIRRORS; X-RAY TELESCOPES;

COATING TECHNIQUES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 42149190056     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.782955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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