The long-stroke MROI vacuum delay lines: From concept to production

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7013, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Haniff, Christopher A ^a   Boysen, Roger C ^a   Buscher, David F ^a   Fisher, Martin ^a   Seneta, Eugene B ^a   Sun, Xiaowei ^a   Wilson, Donald M A ^a   Young, John S ^a   Santoro, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay lines; Stellar interferometry

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; TESTING; THROUGHPUT; VACUUM;

CAMBRIDGE; DELAY LINE; DELAY LINES; HIGH THROUGHPUTS; INFRA RED INTERFEROMETRY; NEW MEXICO; OPTICAL-; PATH DELAY; PERFORMANCE TESTING; SINGLE-STAGE; STELLAR INTERFEROMETRY; TEST RESULTS; UNDER CONSTRUCTION; VACUUM DELAY LINES; VACUUM TESTING; WAVE FRONT QUALITY;

WAVES;

EID: 52249099459     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789761     Document Type: Conference Paper

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