• Home

Science Archived

Science News, Articles and Vacancies

  • Home
  • Upcoming Events
  • Subscribe by RSS
  • Subscribe by email

Large off-axis mirrors key to giant astronomical telescope

admin January 19th, 2009 Astronomy

Advances in laser metrology and computer-generated holograms allow optical scientists at the University of Arizona to polish the mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope.
Read full Article »

Astronomy

Related Headlines:

    Innovative design choices for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

    James Webb Telescope mirrors chill out

    First binocular light images

    Close-up view of Einstein Cross

    Nine partners join Giant Magellan Telescope project

    Giant birefringence and tunable differential group delay in Bragg reflector based on tapered three-dimensional hollow waveguide

    Superpolishing aspherical mirrors using active optics

    Giant galaxy M87 finally sized up

    When excellent on-axis performance is not good enough

    Large Binocular Telescope achieves major optics breakthrough

    Simple filters enable x-ray polarization measurements

    Simple filters enable x-ray polarization measurements

    Fermi telescope caps its first year with a glimpse of space-time

    Advanced instruments for the Subaru Telescope

    James Webb Space Telescope completes cryogenic mirror test

Leave a Reply

*
To prove that you're not a bot, enter this code
Anti-Spam Image


« Laser structuring of water-repellent biomimetic surfaces Frantic activity revealed in dusty stellar factories »
  • Latest
  • Popular
  • Sections
  • Archives
  • Efficient unidirectional generation of surface plasmon polaritons with asymmetric single-nanoslit
  • MachZehnder interferometry method for decoupling electro-optic and piezoelectric effects in poled polymer films
  • Freestanding spherical silicon nanocrystals: A model system for studying confined excitons
  • Room temperature terahertz electro-optic modulation by excitons in carbon nanotubes
  • Robust one-way modes in gyromagnetic photonic crystal waveguides with different interfaces
  • Spatially resolved characterization of InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot structures by scanning spreading resistance microscopy
  • Electro-optic switching element for dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides
  • Programmable purification of type-I polarization-entanglement
  • Femtosecond laser fabrication of high reflectivity micromirrors
  • Brilliant star in a colorful neighborhood
  • New nanostructures enhance solar water splitting with hematite
  • Microbial life protected from frostbite
  • Bias-induced offset effect overlapped on bipolar-resistance effect based on Co/SiO/Si structure
  • Bragg grating writing in acoustically excited optical fiber
  • Mechanical and thermal stability of plasmonic emitters on flexible polyimide substrates
  • Astronomy Lecture
  • Absolute external luminescence quantum efficiency of zinc oxide
  • All-inorganic light emitting device based on ZnO nanoparticles
  • Astronomy
  • Events
  • Laser And Optics
  • Lofar
  • Micro - Nano Fabrication
  • Nanotechnology
  • Navigation
  • Physics
  • Science and Innovation
  • Skatelescope
  • Video
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009

Copyright © 2010 Science Archived