Residual wave front phase estimation in the reimaged Lyot plane for the eclipse coronagraphic telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4860, Issue , 2002, Pages 229-239

  Shaklan, Stuart ^a   Moody, Dwight ^a   Green, Joseph ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Wave front control; Wave front sensing

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; PLANETS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; WAVEFRONTS;

ECLIPSE CORONAGRAPHIC TELESCOPE; REIMAGED LYOT PLANE; RESIDUAL WAVE FRONT PHASE ESTIMATION; WAVE FRONT CONTROL;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037687428     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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