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L-3 Applied Optics Center (AOC) Completes Large Optic Coating for MMT
2014-09-22 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Dallas, TX – L-3 Corporation's Applied Optics Center (AOC) recently completed the coating of a large optic for the 6.5 m MMT. The MMT, located on the site of the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, is one of the world's largest astronomical telescopes, located on top of the 8,530-high Mount Hopkins, south of Tucson, Arizona.<br /> <br /> The window is the entrance window for the Binospec spectrograph, to be placed in operation at the MMT Observatory in 2015. The spectrograph will ...This story is related to the following:Optics and PhotonicsSearch for suppliers of: Optical Filter Coatings | Film Coatings | Optical Coating Systems
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