Fabrication, Evaluation, And Performance Of Machined Metal Grazing Incidence Telescopes

Stuart Bowyer; James Green

doi:10.1117/12.942166

9 August 1988 Fabrication, Evaluation, And Performance Of Machined Metal Grazing Incidence Telescopes

Stuart Bowyer, James Green

Proceedings Volume 0830, Grazing Incidence Optics for Astronomical and Laboratory Applications; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.942166
Event: 31st Annual Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Sciences and Engineering, 1987, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Grazing incidence optics are a key element of x-ray and extreme ultraviolet astronomy and are becoming increasingly important in aspects of far-ultraviolet astronomy. Metal optics have figured prominently in this work, and machined metal optics offer distinct advantages in some applications. New methods of metrology have combined with innovations in fabrication to produce metal optics of second of arc quality. In this paper we review the fabrication, evaluation, and performance of machined grazing incidence metal optics produced, or in production, for astronomical telescopes.

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Stuart Bowyer and James Green "Fabrication, Evaluation, And Performance Of Machined Metal Grazing Incidence Telescopes", Proc. SPIE 0830, Grazing Incidence Optics for Astronomical and Laboratory Applications, (9 August 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.942166

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