Diffraction limited spectro-polarimeter - Phase I

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4843, Issue , 2002, Pages 414-424

  Sankarasubramanian, K ^a   Elmore, D F ^b   Lites, B W ^b   Sigwarth, M ^c   Rimmele, T R ^a   Hegwer, S ^a   Gregory, S ^a   Streander, K V ^b   Wilkins, L ^a   Richards, K ^a   Berst, C ^a  

^a NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c KIEPENHEUER INSTITUT FÜR SONNENPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Littrow Spectrograph; Small scale fields; Stokes Polarimetry; Sunspot

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OBSERVATORIES; SPECTROGRAPHS;

STOKES POLARIMETRY;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 0037547206     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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