Mr. Tom Vettese Profile

Tom Vettese

Engineering Manager at General Dynamics-Global Imaging Technologies

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Publications (6)

Proceedings Article | 2 September 2015 Paper

Application and testing of additive manufacturing for mirrors and precision structures

Michael Sweeney, Martyn Acreman, Tom Vettese, Ray Myatt, Mike Thompson

Proceedings Volume 9574, 957406 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2189202

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Aluminum, Laser sintering, Beryllium, Metals, Optical spheres, Optics manufacturing, Spherical lenses, Electron beam melting, Additive manufacturing

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Proceedings Article | 2 September 2015 Paper

Design and manufacturing considerations for high-performance gimbals used for land, sea, air, and space

Mike Sweeney, Lafe Redd, Tom Vettese, Ray Myatt, David Uchida, Del Sellers

Proceedings Volume 9574, 957404 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2189197

KEYWORDS: Aluminum, Beryllium, Composites, Metals, Manufacturing, Solids, Spherical lenses, Design for manufacturability, Optics manufacturing, Graphene

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Proceedings Article | 2 September 2015 Paper

Design and manufacturing considerations for 0.25-1.5 meter beryllium telescopes for current and future space missions

Mike Sweeney, Mark Warren, Joseph Ho, Jeff Calvert, Tom Vettese, Jeff Ruzan, Brady Rogers

Proceedings Volume 9574, 957402 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2189196

KEYWORDS: Beryllium, Telescopes, Mirrors, Space telescopes, Optics manufacturing, Polishing, Optical instrument design, Nickel, Surface finishing, Wavefronts

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Proceedings Article | 7 July 1997 Paper

Single-facet scanning subsystem for digital imaging

Mehrdad Ketabchi, Bryan Tiffany, Thomas Vettese

Proceedings Volume 3131, (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.277760

KEYWORDS: Spherical lenses, Monochromatic aberrations, Scanners, Mirrors, Laser scanners, Digital imaging, Image segmentation, Optics manufacturing, 3D scanning, Turbulence

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