We have constructed a 1m-diameter, holographically corrected membrane mirror telescope for optical imaging. Several thousand waves of surface error were removed using a corrective hologram, resulting in near diffraction-limited performance. A detailed discussion of the mirror, the corrective process and the performance of the final telescope are included.
Thermal analysis of two-dimensional and three-dimensional two-layer device structures have been carried out using the boundary element method (BEM). The resulting thermal profiles agree very well with those obtained using analytical solutions. This agreement indicates not only the accuracy of the BEM but also the correct derivation of the analytical solutions.
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