Imaging performance of near infrared (NIR) channel in Infrared Camera (IRC) on board ASTRO-F

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4850, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 202-208

  Kim, W ^a,b   Matuhara, H ^a   Onaka, T ^b   Uemizu, K ^c   Negishi, T ^b   Takeyama, N ^b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Chromatic focal shift; Infrared Camera; Modulation Transfer Function; Near Infrared

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CAMERAS; CRYOGENICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATELLITES;

INFRARED CAMERAS;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0038075507     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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