Deep nulling by means of multiple-beam recombination

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1867-1875

  Mieremet, Arjan L ^a   Braat, Joseph J M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ATTENUATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; PHASE SHIFTERS;

MULTIPLE-BEAM RECOMBINATION;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0042977536     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.001867     Document Type: Article

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