Thin shell active polishing for large deformable secondary mirrors

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hugot, E ^a   Ferrari, M ^a   Lemaitre, G ^a   Fappani, D ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b SESO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MIRRORS; POLISHING;

DEFORMABLE SECONDARY MIRROR; STRESS POLISHING; THIN SHELLS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 56249105650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/aopt.2007.atud6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. E. Hugot et al, "VLT Deformable Secondary Mirror: Thin Shell Manufacturing", Towards the European Extremely Large Telescope, ESO Conference, 2006 (in press).
3. R. Arsenault et al, "A Deformable Secondary Mirror for the VLT", Astronomical telescopes and instrumentation, SPIE proc. 2006.
4. G. Lemaitre, "New procedure for Making Schmidt Corrector Plates", 1972, Applied Optics, Vol. 11, p. 1630
5. A. Riccardi, "Optical figuring specifications for thin shells to be used in adaptive telescope mirrors", Astronomical telescopes and instrumentation, SPIE proc. 2006.