Active Optics in Astronomy: Freeform Mirror for the MESSIER Telescope Proposal

Active optics techniques in astronomy provide high imaging quality. This paper is dedicated to highly deformable active optics that can generate non-axisymmetric aspheric surfaces—or freeform surfaces—by use of a minimum number of actuators. The aspheric mirror is obtained from a...

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Main Authors: Gerard Rene Lemaitre, Pascal Vola, Eduard Muslimov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-12-01
Series:Mathematical and Computational Applications
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2297-8747/24/1/2