The nulltimate project: Building and testing, at low temperature, achromatic phase shifters to prepare the Darwin mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 999-1010

  Labèque, Alain ^a   Chazelas, Bruno ^a   Brachet, Frank ^a   Commeaux, Christian ^b   Blache, Philippe ^b   Léger, Alain ^a   Ollivier, Marc ^a   Lépine, Thierry ^c   Valette, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c Inst d'Optique Theor et Appl   (France)

Author keywords

Extrasolar planet detection; Infrared instrumentation; Laboratory experiment; Nulling interferometry

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CRYOGENICS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; PHASE SHIFTERS; PLANETS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

DARWIN MISSION; EXTRASOLAR PLANET DETECTION; INFRARED INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENT; NULLTIMATE PROJECT;

SPACE APPLICATIONS;

EID: 11144282729     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550910     Document Type: Conference Paper

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