The sensitivity of shaped pupil coronagraphs to optical aberrations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1358-1367

  Green, Joseph J ^a,c   Shaklan, Stuart B ^a,c   Vanderbei, Robert J ^b   Kasdin, N Jeremy ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c M/S 306 336 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraphic telescope; Error modeling; Extrasolar planets; Optical aberrations; Shaped pupil

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPHIC TELESCOPES; ERROR MODELING; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; SHAPED PUPIL CORONAGRAPHS;

ABERRATIONS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANETS; WAVEFRONTS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044277132     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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