VINCI, the VLTI commissioning instrument: Status after one year of operations at paranal

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 858-869

  Kervella, Pierre ^a   Gitton, Philippe ^a   Segransan, Damien ^c   Di Folco, Emmanuel ^c   Kern, Pierre ^c   Kiekebush, Mario ^a   Phan Duc, Thanh ^c   Longinotti, Antonio ^c   Du Foresto, Vincent Coudé ^c   Ballester, Pascal ^c   Sabet, Cyrus ^c   Cotton, William D ^b   Schöller, Markus ^a   Wilhelm, Rainer ^c  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Commissioning; Infrared interferometry; Integrated optics; Optical fibers; VLTI; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

VERY LARGE TELESCOPE INTERFEROMETERS (VLTI);

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0013131445     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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