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Gauges for highly precise metrology of a compound mirror
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Gursel, Yekta |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Description | Three optical gauges have been developed for guiding the assembly and measuring precisely the reflecting surfaces of a compound mirror that comprises a corner-cube retroreflector glued in a hole on a flat mirror. In the specific application for which the gauges were developed, the compound mirror is part of a siderostat in a stellar interferometer. The flat-mirror portion of the compound mirror is the siderostat mirror; the retroreflector portion of the compound mirror is to be used, during operation of the interferometer, to monitor the location of the siderostat mirror surface relative to other optical surfaces of the interferometer. Nominally, the optical corner of the retroreflector should lie precisely on the siderostat mirror surface, but this precision cannot be achieved in fabrication: in practice, there remains some distance between the optical corner and the siderostat mirror surface. For proper operation of the interferometer, it is required to make this distance as small as possible and to know this distance within 1 nm. The three gauges make it possible to satisfy these requirements. |
| File Size | 219779 |
| Page Count | 2 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20110015048 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t8hf2sx5x |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2005-07-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Man/system Technology And Life Support Alignment Precision Measuring Instruments Instrument Orientation Retroreflectors Segmented Mirrors Interferometers Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |