20 and 30 m telescope designs with potential for subsequent incorporation into a track-mounted pair (20/20 or 30/30)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 183-193

  Angel, Roger ^a   Burge, Jim ^a   Codona, Johanan L ^a   Davison, Warren ^a   Martin, Buddy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Apodization; Extrasolar planets; Fizeau interferometer; Giant telescopes; High resolution imaging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; PLANETS;

GIANT TELESCOPES;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038701805     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459862     Document Type: Conference Paper

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