A light reflecting apparatus including a multi-aberration light reflecting surface

Patent · Thu Nov 21 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6538324

Sawicki, R H; Sweatt, W

A light reflecting apparatus including a multi-aberration bendable light reflecting surface is disclosed herein. This apparatus includes a structural assembly comprised of a rectangular plate which is resiliently bendable, to a limited extent, and which has a front side defining the multi-aberration light reflecting surface and an opposite back side, and a plurality of straight leg members rigidly connected with the back side of the plate and extending rearwardly therefrom. The apparatus also includes a number of different adjustment mechanisms, each of which is connected with specific ones of the leg members. These mechanisms are adjustably movable in different ways for applying corresponding forces to the leg members in order to bend the rectangular plate and light reflecting surface into different predetermined curvatures and which specifically include quadratic and cubic curvatures corresponding to different optical aberrations.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• Assignee: Dept. of Energy
• Patent Number(s): None
• Application Number: ON: DE87007281
• OSTI ID: 6538324
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ADJUSTMENTS
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
BENDING
DESIGN
MIRRORS
OPTICAL REFLECTION
REFLECTION