Alignment of the MAM testbed to enable micro-arcsecond astrometry performance for SIM

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4852, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 741-752

  Goullioud, Renaud ^a   Bloemhof, Eric ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Interferometry; MAM; Metrology; Picometer; SIM; Testbed

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SPACE FLIGHT;

HETERODYNE METROLOGY SENSORS; MICRO-ARCSECOND METROLOGY; SPACE INTERFEROMETRY MISSION; STELLAR INTERFEROMETER;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0038626653     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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