Systematic errors in nulling interferometers

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 33, 2004, Pages 6100-6123

  Lay, Oliver P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; PLANETS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ANGULAR SPACING; FRINGE PATTERNS; NULLING INTERFEROMETERS; SPATIAL FILTERS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 10444222553     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.006100     Document Type: Article

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