Amodei, Dario and Padin, Stephen (2003) Mirrors with Regular Hexagonal Segments. Applied Optics, 42 (25). pp. 5130-5135. ISSN 0003-6935 http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:AMOao03
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Abstract
The point-spread function and emissivity are calculated for a mirror made from regular hexagonal segments of just a few different sizes. A mirror of this type has many similar segments, which is an advantage for manufacturing, and for an ~f/1 mirror with ≥1000 segments and ≥4 sizes of regular hexagons the increase in intersegment gap area is negligible. This result raises the possibility of making a mirror from very large numbers of identical small segments that are warped to the required figure.
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| Additional Information: | © 2003 Optical Society of America Received 25 October 2002; revised manuscript received 25 February 2003. This work was supported by the Brewer Prize Undergraduate Fellowship awarded to Dario Amodei. |
| Subject Keywords: | Telescopes; Optomechanics; Astronomical optics |
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:AMOao03 |
| Persistent URL: | http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:AMOao03 |
| Alternative URL: | http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-42-25-5130 |
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| ID Code: | 2872 |
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| Deposited On: | 04 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Dec 2012 08:51 |
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