Abstract
Large telescopes are very expensive, partly because of the cost of making and testing highly aspheric mirrors. A large fast-speed parabola or hyperbola may have 100 wavelengths of deformation relative to the best-fit sphere. Smooth surfaces are hard to achieve on steep aspherics, and null test optics can be quite complex and expensive.
© 1985 Optical Society of America
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