Abstract

The point-spread function and emissivity are calculated for a mirror made from regular hexagonal segments of just a few different sizes. A mirror of this type has many similar segments, which is an advantage for manufacturing, and for an ~f/1 mirror with ≥1000 segments and ≥4 sizes of regular hexagons the increase in intersegment gap area is negligible. This result raises the possibility of making a mirror from very large numbers of identical small segments that are warped to the required figure.

© 2003 Optical Society of America

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Dario Amodei, Stephen Padin

The authors are with the California Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 105–24, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125. D. Amodei’s e-mail address is dario@caltech.edu; S. Padin’s is spadin@caltech.edu.

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