Design and specification of optical bandpass filters for hubble space telescope (HST) advanced camera for surveys (ACS)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3356, Issue , 1998, Pages 308-320

  Leviton, Douglas B ^a   Tsvetanov, Ziatan ^b   Woodruff, Robert A ^c   Mooney, Thomas A ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^d Barr Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandpass filters; Color filter glass; Focal shift; Out of band rejection; Parfocality; Passband; Ramp filters; Spectral transmittance; Transmitted wavefront

Indexed keywords

COLOR FILTERS; FOCAL SHIFTS; OUT OF BAND REJECTION; PARFOCALITY; PASS BANDS; SPECTRAL TRANSMITTANCE; TRANSMITTED WAVEFRONTS;

CAMERAS; DESIGN; DIGITAL DEVICES; INSTRUMENTS; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECIFICATIONS; SURVEYS; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WAVEFRONTS; BANDPASS FILTERS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

BANDPASS FILTERS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

ADVANCED CAMERA FOR SURVEYS (ACS); HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPES (HST); OPTICAL BANDPASS FILTERS; SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY (SDSS);

EID: 0032294425     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.324531     Document Type: Conference Paper

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