Within the Astronomical community there is growing interest in the development and use of very large aperture telescopes which will incorporate the latest advancements in optical materials. One of the most notable of these large size telescope projects, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), will use mirror segments in the actively controlled primary mirrors and Ohara is a supplier of the near zero expansion mirror blanks. In this paper we present the measurement and inspection results on the initial 60 pieces of Ohara CLEARCERAM-Z HS 1.5m diameter blanks, which will be used for the TMT M1 Segment Blanks, including data on the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE), CTE uniformity, residual stress, bubbles and inclusions.
There is growing interest within the Astronomical community in the development and use of very large aperture
telescopes which will incorporate the latest advancements in optical materials. Two of the most notable of these large
size telescope projects, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), will use
mirror segments in the actively controlled primary mirrors. In this paper we present the results of a material
characteristics study on Ohara CLEARCERAM®-Z HS large diameter blanks which includes data on the CTE, CTE
uniformity, residual stress and internal quality targeting potential use in the TMT Primary Mirror Segment Banks.
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