High contrast imaging with Gaussian shaped pupils

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4860, Issue , 2002, Pages 138-148

  Debes, John H ^a   Ge, Jian ^a   Mandelowitz, Caylin ^a   Watson, Anne ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apodisation; Coronagraphy; Extrasolar planets; High contrast imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INFRARED SPECTROGRAPHS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PLANETS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

APODISATION; CORONAGRAPHY; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; GAUSSIAN SHAPED PUPILS; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0038626409     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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