Three telescope nuller, based on multi beam injection into single mode waveguide

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 831-841

  Karlsson, Anders ^a   Wallner, Oswald ^b   Armengol, Josep Perdigues ^a   Absil, Olivier ^c  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LIGHT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLANETS; SPACECRAFT; TELESCOPES;

CIRCULAR TELESCOPES; OFF-AXIS PLANETS; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDES; TELESCOPE NULLERS;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 11144249456     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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