First test results from FORCAST: The facility mid-IR camera for SOFIA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1086-1093

  Keller, Luke D ^a,b   Herter, Terry ^a   Stacey, Gordon ^a   Gull, George ^a   Schoenwald, Justin ^a   Pirger, Bruce ^a   Adams, Joe ^a   Berthoud, Marc G ^a   Nikola, Thomas ^a  

^a Ctr for Radiophysics and Space Res ^*  (United States)

^b ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocked impurity band detectors; Diamond turned optics; Infrared cameras

Indexed keywords

BLOCKED IMPURITY BAND DETECTORS; DIAMOND TURNED OPTICS; INFRARED CAMERAS; SHORT WAVELENGTH CHANNELS (SWC);

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNESIA; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 10444248825     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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