Stress polishing of toric mirrors for the VLT-SPHERE common path

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7018, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hugot, Emmanuel ^a   Ferrari, Marc ^a   El Hadi, Kacem ^a   Dohlen, Kjetil ^a   Vola, Pascal ^a   Ernst, Nicolas ^a   Lemaitre, Gérard R ^a   Montiel, Pierre ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

A ctive optics; Aberration compensation; Aspherics; Polishing; Sphere

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ASPHERICS; CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SPHERES; STRESSES; TELESCOPES;

A CTIVE OPTICS; ABERRATION COMPENSATION; ANALYTICAL CALCULATIONS; CHARACTERISATION; COMMON PATHS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DIRECT DETECTIONS; ELASTICITY THEORIES; EXTREME ADAPTIVE OPTICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HIGH CONTRASTS; HIGHER ORDER TERMS; IMAGING PERFORMANCES; OPTICAL QUALITIES; OPTICAL TRAINS; OPTIMISATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCIES; STRESS POLISHING; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS; TORIC MIRRORS;

POLISHING;

EID: 56349107074     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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