Development of surface metrology for the Giant Magellan Telescope primary mirror

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7018, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Burge, J H ^a   Davison, W ^a   Martin, H M ^a   Zhao, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspheres; Optical fabrication; Optical testing; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICS; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAMS; INSTRUMENTS; INTERFEROMETRY; LITHOGRAPHY; METRIC SYSTEM; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SCANNING; TELESCOPES;

ASPHERES; ASPHERIC DEPARTURES; DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPES; INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; INTERFEROMETRIC TESTS; LASER TRACKERS; OPTICAL FABRICATION; OPTICAL SURFACES; PRIMARY MIRRORS; SLOPE MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE METROLOGIES; TEST SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL TESTING;

EID: 56249105129     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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