New Opportunities From Materials Selection Trade-Offs For High Precision Space Mirrors

22 October 1985

conference paper
Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng

Vol. 542, 5-18
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948147

Abstract

The successful development of space-based infrared surveillance systems and space-based lasers is predicated primarily upon the availability of large, high precision optics. Current technology and existing facilities are insufficient to produce, in a timely manner, either the quality or the quantity of high performance mirrors required for envisioned systems. In addition, the performance requirements associated with space based, diffraction limited optical systems demand ever increasing figure quality. In response to this challenge, the government has sponsored the Rapid Optics Fabrication Technology (ROFT) Program.© (1985) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

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