Cobra: A two-degree of freedom fiber optic positioning mechanism

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fisher, Charles ^a   Braun, David ^a   Kaluzny, Joel ^a   Haran, Todd ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b New Scale Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSE PACKED; DARK ENERGY; HEX ARRAYS; MULTI-OBJECTS; OPTIC FIBER; PRIME-FOCUS; ROTARY MOTOR; SECONDARY MIRROR; SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION; SKY COVERAGE; SUBARU TELESCOPES; TWO-DEGREE OF FREEDOM; WIDE-FIELD;

COSMOLOGY; MOTORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES;

FIBERS;

EID: 70349126777     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2009.4839435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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