Performance of a precision high-density deformable mirror for extremely high contrast imaging astronomy from space

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4854, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-8

  Trauger, John ^a   Moody, Dwight ^a   Gordon, Brian ^a   Gürsel, Yekta ^a   Ealey, Mark ^b   Bagwell, Roger ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Xinetics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Coronagraphs; Space astronomy

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ASTRONOMY; DENSITY (OPTICAL); IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

ACTIVE WAVEFRONT CORRECTION; CORONOGRAPHIC SPACE TELESCOPES; DEFORMABLE MIRROR; ELECTROCERAMIC DESIGN; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING ASTRONOMY;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0038363370     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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