Wavefront sensing of X-ray telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Saha, Timo ^a   Rohrbach, Scott ^a   Hadjimichael, Theo ^a   Zhang, William W ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Phase retrieval; Wavefront sensing; X ray telescopes

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; AXIAL ERRORS; FIGURE ERROR; FOCAL PLANES; GRAZING INCIDENCE; INPUT DATAS; JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT OPTIMIZATION; LOW ORDER; NONLINEAR LEAST-SQUARES; NORMAL INCIDENCE; OFF-AXIS; OPTICAL ABERRATION; OPTICAL DIFFRACTIONS; PHASE RETRIEVAL; PHASE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; SEGMENTED PRIMARY MIRRORS; SURFACE ERROR; TELESCOPE OPTICS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; WAVEFRONT SENSING; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY OBSERVATORY;

ALGORITHMS; ASTRONOMY; ERRORS; GAMMA RAYS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL TESTING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; WAVEFRONTS; X RAYS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77957884617     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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