Fully symmetric nulling beam combiners

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1668-1671

  Serabyn, E ^a   Colavita, M M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

NULLING INTERFEROMETRY;

LIGHT;

EID: 0012194462     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001668     Document Type: Article

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