Optical design of WIRCAM, the CFHT wide-field infrared camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 932-943

  Thibault, Simon ^a   Cui, Qingfend ^a   Poirier, Michel ^a   Vallée, Philippe ^b   Doyon, René ^b   Rabou, Patrick ^c   Salmon, Derrick ^c  

^a INO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INO ^*

Author keywords

Coating; Infrared imaging; Infrared materials; Optical design

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL DESIGN;

INFRARED CAMERAS;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 0038634927     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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