High contrast imaging testbed for the terrestrial planet finder coronagraph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1246-1254

  Lowman, Andrew E ^a   Trauger, John T ^a   Gordon, Brian ^a   Green, Joseph J ^a   Moody, Dwight ^a   Niessner, Albert F ^a   Shi, Fang ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Coronagraph; Deformable mirror; TPF; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICS; DEFORMABLE MIRROR; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDER (TPF); WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MASKS; SPACE TELESCOPES; VEHICLES; WAVEFRONTS;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 10044280670     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.547710     Document Type: Conference Paper

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