Hot slumping glass technology for the grazing incidence optics of future missions, with particular reference to IXO

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ghigo, M ^a   Basso, S ^a   Bavdaz, M ^b   Conconi, P ^a   Citterio, O ^a   Civitani, M ^a,c   Friedrich, P ^d   Gallieni, D ^e   Guldimann, B ^b   Martelli, F ^f   Negri, R ^a,g   Pagano, G ^a,g   Pareschi, G ^a   Parodi, G ^f   Proserpio, L ^a,c   Salmaso, B ^a   Scaglione, F ^a,g   Spiga, D ^a   Tagliaferri, G ^a   Terzi, L ^a,g   Tintori, M ^e   Vongehr, M ^d   Wille, E ^b   Winter, A ^d   Zambra, A ^a   more..

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e ADS International   (Italy)

^f BCV Progetti   (Italy)

^g POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Glass mirror plates; IXO X ray telescope; Thermal slumping of thin glass foils; X ray segmented mirrors

Indexed keywords

BACKPLANES; BONDING PROCESS; DIRECT CONTACT; FUTURE MISSION; GLASS MIRRORS; GLASS TECHNOLOGY; GRAZING INCIDENCE OPTICS; HIGH QUALITY; INTEGRATION PROCESS; LOW FREQUENCY; MICRO-ROUGHNESS; OPTICAL QUALITIES; OPTICAL SURFACES; PROS AND CONS; PUMP SUCTION; REAR SIDE; REINFORCING RIB; SEGMENTED MIRROR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPRING-BACK; THERMAL CYCLE; THIN GLASS; THIN PLATE; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY OBSERVATORY;

BUILDINGS; FUSED SILICA; GLASS; INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; MOLDS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PUMPS; SILICA; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; THERMAL CYCLING; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957864172     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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