Diffraction effects from giant segmented mirror telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 81-92

  Troy, Mitchell ^a   Chanan, Gary ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Diffraction; Phasing; Segmented mirrors; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ULTRA-HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038325616     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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