Manufacture of a 1.7 m prototype of the GMT primary mirror segments

Buddy Martin; Jim Burge; Jim Burge; Steve Miller; Bryan Smith; Rene Zehnder; Chunyu Zhao

doi:10.1364/OFT.2006.OFWB3

Frontiers in Optics
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2006),
paper OFWB3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OFT.2006.OFWB3

Manufacture of a 1.7 m prototype of the GMT primary mirror segments

Buddy Martin, Jim Burge, Steve Miller, Bryan Smith, Rene Zehnder, and Chunyu Zhao

Optical Fabrication and Testing 2006

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

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B. Martin, J. Burge, S. Miller, B. Smith, R. Zehnder, and C. Zhao, "Manufacture of a 1.7 m prototype of the GMT primary mirror segments," in Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2006), paper OFWB3.

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Abstract

We have manufactured a 1.7 m off-axis mirror as part of the technology development for the Giant Magellan Telescope. The mirror was polished with a stressed lap and measured using a hybrid reflective-diffractive null corrector.

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