Improvement in the rejection rate of a nulling interferometer by spatial filtering

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 5340-5346

  Ollivier, Marc ^a   Mariotti, Jean Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Coronography; Extrasolar planets; Interferometry; Spatial filtering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001457961     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005340     Document Type: Article

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