Extreme wave front sensing accuracy for the eclipse coronagraphic space telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4860, Issue , 2002, Pages 266-276

  Green, Joseph J ^a   Redding, David C ^a   Shaklan, Stuart ^a   Basinger, Scott A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraphic telescope; Focus diversity; Phase retrieval; Wave front control; Wave front sensing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; PLANETS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVEFRONTS;

ECLIPSE CORONAGRAPHIC SPACE TELESCOPE; FOCUS-DIVERSITY; PHASE RETRIEVAL; WAVE FRONT CONTROL; WAVE FRONT SENSING;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038287518     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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