Optical systems engineering for a terrestrial planet finder coronagraph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4860, Issue , 2002, Pages 72-83

  Noecker, Charley ^a   Woodruff, Bob ^b   Burrows, Chris ^c  

^a BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Extra solar planet; Planet detection; Terrestrial planet finder

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; PLANETS; SPACE TELESCOPES; SYSTEM STABILITY; WAVEFRONTS;

CORONAGRAPH; EXTRA-SOLAR PLANET; PLANET DETECTION; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDER;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037612188     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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