Large prism mounting to minimize rotation in Cassegrain instruments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3355, Issue , 1998, Pages 59-69

  Sheinis, Andrew I ^a   Nelson, Jerry E ^a   Radovan, Matthew V ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Cassegrain; Cross dispersing prisms; Prism mounting; Space frames; Spectrographs

Indexed keywords

CASSEGRAIN; CROSS-DISPERSING PRISMS; ECHELLETTE SPECTROGRAPH AND IMAGER; FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FIXED ANGLES; MECHANICAL TESTS; NOVEL CONCEPTS; OPTICAL AXIS; OPTICAL STABILITIES; SPACE FRAMES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; INSTRUMENTS; MOUNTINGS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SPECTROGRAPHS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

PRISMS;

EID: 62849101988     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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