Lightweight Active and Passive Carbon Fibre Mirrors

Optical Science Laboratory

Publications


Conference Proceedings

  • P. Doel, S. Kendrew, D. Brooks, C. Dorn, C. Yates, R. Dwan, I. Richardson, G. Evans. Development of an active carbon fibre composite mirror. Proc. SPIE vol. 5490 pp. 1591-1599 (2004)
  • S. Kendrew, P. Doel. Finite element analysis of large carbon fibre composite adaptive mirrors. Proc. SPIE vol. 5490 pp. 1526-1533 (2004)

Presentations

  • Carbon fibre composites for lightweight space optics. Presented by S. Kendrew at the Smart Optics Review Forum, Society for Chemical Industry, 15 July 2004.

Refereed journal papers

  • S. Kendrew, P. Doel, D. Brooks, C. Dorn, C. Yates, R.M. Dwan, I. Richardson, G. Evans. Development of a carbon fibre composite active mirror: Design and testing. Accepted by Optical Engineering, Aug 2005 or astro-ph/0508135.

 


Outreach / Other

  • The CFC project was featured in a news piece on Optics.org on 11 August 2004. Click here to read the story...

 


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