The shaped pupil coronagraph for planet finding coronagraphy: Optimization, sensitivity, and laboratory testing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1312-1321

  Kasdin, N Jeremy ^a   Vanderbei, Robert J ^a   Littman, Michael G ^a   Carr, Michael ^b   Spergel, David N ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APODIZATION; PLANET FINDING CORONAGRAPHY; SHAPED PUPIL CORONAGRAPHS; VECTOR FIELD THEORY;

ABERRATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANETS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELESCOPES; THROUGHPUT;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044274405     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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