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Three lightweight, coated
plano ellipses: 6" x 8.5", 1.5 pounds. Click on image to see other plano
mirrors. |
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Read the article about a Dream 9.5
pound engineered, lightweight 16" f1.376 mirror used for
a cutting-edge Adaptive Optics project. |
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To read the full article,
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Bubble-free 14.5" Cassegrain
optical sets in stock - April 2016. |
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Can be finished to CC, D-K,
R-C or modified Cassegrain designs. |
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Contact Dream for further
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Dream specializes in the
optimized design, engineering and in-house production of bubble-free lightweight mirror
blanks, as well as finishing of lightweight optical mirrors and
optical sets.
Dream's level of engineering,
innovation and process control offers unparalleled performance,
including low
MSF
errors,
to our
customers.
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Dream's lightweight
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* Elimination of quality-robbing mirror
seeing, which is a centuries old problem with solid mirrors. |
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* Maintain tighter optical alignment
tolerances that are a must for modern optical designs. This produces
higher system performance because Dream's mirrors are 1/3 to
1/4 the mass of solid mirrors. |
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* Faster slews,
better tracking performance and higher throughput due to lower
inertia of the total instrument. |
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* Less down time because their lower
mass means faster removal and re-installation after recoating. |
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If
your smart phone upgrades every three months, do you really believe
you are getting the ultimate in performance from 350 year old
solid mirror technology? |
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"We shall look back and see how inefficient,
how primitive it was to work with thick, solid mirrors, obsolete
mirror-curves, ..." |
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- George Willis Ritchey
1928 |
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From the book "Mirror Mirror"
by Mark Pendergrast |
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Click below to see Zygo data of a finished plano elliptical
Dream mirror. |
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Dream mirror finished to higher
quality level than Hubble Space Telescope's M2 |
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This hyperboloidal convex secondary mirror (M2) was
part of a Dream 24" Ritchey-Chrétien telescope for
a NASA project. |
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Click here for additional information. |
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Dream delivers a fast &
demanding 300mm CA f3 Ritchey-Chrétien
optical set. |
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Dream directly casts and fully processes
a bubble-free f1.376 mirror
for an Adaptive Optics project. The mirror is six times lower in areal
density than Hubble's M1. |
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QED Optics displays Dream mirror at SPIE's Photonics West |
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Designing,
Engineering & Using Lightweight Mirrors Since 2003 |
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