Progress in manufacturing the first 8.4 m off-axis segment for the Giant Magellan Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7018, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Martin, H M ^a   Burge, J H ^a   Cuerden, B ^a   Davison, W B ^a   Kingsley, J S ^a   Kittrell, W C ^a   Lutz, R D ^a   Miller, S M ^a   Zhao, C ^a   Zobrist, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Aspheres; Optical fabrication; Optical testing; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GRINDING (MACHINING); HOLOGRAMS; INSTRUMENTS; LITHOGRAPHY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SPHERES; TELESCOPES; TESTING;

ACTIVE OPTICS; ASPHERES; GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPES; GROUND SURFACES; INTERFEROMETRIC TESTS; NULL CORRECTORS; OPTICAL FABRICATION; PRIMARY MIRRORS; SPHERICAL MIRRORS;

OPTICAL TESTING;

EID: 56249129762     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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