Mr. Thomas W. Hobbs Profile

Thomas W. Hobbs

Process Manager at Corning Incorporated

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Publications (6)

Proceedings Article | 22 July 2016 Paper

High volume ULE segment production

Thomas Hobbs, Mary Edwards, Andrew Fox

Proceedings Volume 9912, 99123G (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2235351

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Telescopes, Manufacturing, Glasses, Ultrasonics, Space telescopes, Optics manufacturing, Birefringence, Polishing, Surface finishing

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Proceedings Article | 22 July 2016 Paper

ULE design considerations for a 3m class light weighted mirror blank for E-ELT M5

Andrew Fox, Tom Hobbs, Mary Edwards, Matthew Arnold, Kent Sawyer

Proceedings Volume 9912, 99123F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2235354

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Lightweight mirrors, Space mirrors, Space telescopes, Manufacturing, Telescopes, Finite element methods, Glasses, Distortion, Plano

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2004 Paper

Corning's approach to segment blank manufacturing for an extremely large telescope

Randy VanBrocklin, Thomas Hobbs, Mary Edwards

Proceedings Volume 5494, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550503

KEYWORDS: Manufacturing, Mirrors, Glasses, Inspection, Large telescopes, Ultrasonics, Telescopes, Temperature metrology, Astronomical telescopes, Space telescopes

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