Scanning pentaprism measurements of off-axis aspherics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7018, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Su, Peng ^a   Burge, James H ^a   Cuerden, Brian ^a   Sasian, Jose ^a   Martin, Hubert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspherics; Optical testing; Telescope

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; FIELD EFFECTS; FOCAL POINTS; GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPES; OPTICAL-; PARABOLOIDAL MIRRORS; PERFORMANCE RESULTS; SURFACE ACCURACIES;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRISMS; SCANNING; SPECIAL EFFECTS; TELESCOPES; TESTING;

OPTICAL TESTING;

EID: 56249088678     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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