Publications
Reconstruction of a conic-section surface from autocollimator-based deflectometric profilometry, Samantha J. Thompson, Richard Lang, Paul Rees and Gareth W. Roberts, Appl. Opt. 55(10), 2827-2836 (2016).
Use of a NOM profilometer to measure large aspheric surfaces, J. L. Pearson, G. W. Roberts, P. C. T. Rees, S. J. Thompson, Proc. SPIE vol. 9628 (2015).
Influence of ply misalignment on form error in the manufacturing of CFRP mirrors, Samantha J. Thompson, Samuel Bichon, Richard J. Grant, Optical Materials Express, Vol. 4 Issue 1, pp.79-91 (2014).
Large Aperture Telescope Technology: a design for an active lightweight multi-segmented fold-out space mirror, S. J. Thompson, A. P. Doel, M. Whalley, R. Edeson, I. Tosh, O. Poyntz-Wright, E. Atad- Ettedgui, D. Montgomery, J. Nawasra, Proc. of International Conference on Space Optics (ICSO) 2010.
Advances in active x-ray telescope technologies, Atkins, Carolyn; Doel, Peter; Brooks, David; Thompson, Samantha; Feldman, Charlotte; Willingale, Richard and 7 co-authors, Proc. SPIE vol 7437 (2009).
A 1-metre Ni coated CFRP demonstrator for large deformable mirrors, Samantha J. Thompson, Peter Doel, David Brooks, Martin Strangwood, Proc. 1st AO4ELT conference (2009).
Active x-ray optics for the next generation of x-ray telescopes, Atkins, Carolyn; Wang, Hongchang; Doel, Peter; Brooks, David; Thompson, Samantha; Feldman, Charlotte and 8 co-authors, Proc. SPIE vol. 7360 (2009).
Towards a large, lightweight mirror for AO - Development of a 1 m Ni coated CFRP mirror, S. J. Thompson, A. P. Doel, D. Brooks, M. Strangwood, Proc. SPIE vol.7018 (2008).
Future high-resolution x-ray telescope technologies: prototype fabrication methods and finite element analysis, Carolyn Atkins, Hongchang Wang, Peter Doel, David Brooks, Samantha Thompson, Charlotte Feldman and 6 co-authors, Proc. SPIE vol. 7011 (2008).
A nickel-carbon-fibre composite for large adaptive mirrors: Fabrication methods and properties, S. J. Thompson, D. Brooks, and A. P. Doel, Opt. Express 16, 1321-1330 (2008).
Active x-ray mirror development at UCL: preliminary results, Carolyn Atkins, Peter Doel, Jun Yao, David Brooks, Samantha Thompson, Richard Willingale, Charlotte Feldman, Tim Button, Dou Zhang, Ady James, Proc. SPIE vol. 6721 (2007).
Large thin adaptive x-ray mirrors, Peter Doel, Carolyn Atkins, Samantha Thompson, David Brooks, Jun Yao, Charlotte Feldman, Richard Willingale, Tim Button, Dou Zhang, Ady James, Proc. SPIE vol. 6705 (2007).
A Nickel-Carbon-Fibre Mirror for Large Adaptive Secondaries, S. J. Thompson, P. Doel, and D. Brooks, Adaptive Optics: Analysis and Methods Topical Meetings on CD-ROM, OSA Technical Digest (CD), paper ATuD5 (Optical Society of America, 2007).
Results from the adaptive optics coronagraph at the WHT, S. J. Thompson, A. P. Doel, R. G. Bingham, A. Charalambous, R. M. Myers, N. Bissonauth, P. Clark, G. Talbot, MNRAS, Vol. 364, Issue 4 (2005).
OSCA - The Coronographic Mask Device for NAOMI, S. G. Els, S. Thompson, P. Doel, P. Jolley, C. Benn, M. Blanken, T. Gregory, R. ьstensen, F. Prada, I. Soechting, The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Issue no. 7 (Dec 2003).
OSCA, an Optimised Stellar Coronagraph for Adaptive optics: Description and first light, Thompson, Samantha, Doel, Andrew P., Bingham, Richard G., Charalambous, Andrew, Bissonauth, Nirmal, Clark, Paul, Myers, Richard M., Talbot, Gordon, Proc. SPIE vol. 4839 (2003).