New Lightweight, Low Cost, Replicated Glass Mirrors for Astronomical Telescopes

David Strafford

doi:10.1364/OFT.2006.OFMB3

Frontiers in Optics
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2006),
paper OFMB3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OFT.2006.OFMB3

New Lightweight, Low Cost, Replicated Glass Mirrors for Astronomical Telescopes

David Strafford

Optical Fabrication and Testing 2006

Rochester, New York United States
9–11 October 2006
ISBN: 1-55752-818-7

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Abstract

Corrugated mirrors are a new technology for rapid fabrication large volumes of lightweight mirror segments at low cost. These mirrors have high performance, low mass and can produced with a replicated optical surface.Article not available.

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