Design of spatial and modal filters for nulling interferometers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 668-679

  Wallner, Oswald ^a,c   Leeb, Walter R ^a   Flatscher, Reinhold ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^c Inst Commun/Radio Frequency Eng   (Austria)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Modal filter; Nulling; Pinhole; Single mode waveguide; Spatial filter

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; WAVEGUIDES;

NULLING;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0038061686     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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