Nulling interferometers: The importance of systematic errors and the X-Array configuration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 874-885

  Lay, Oliver P ^a   Dubovitsky, Serge ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nulling; Optical interferometry; Planet detection

Indexed keywords

NULLING INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE RESPONSE; PLANET DETECTION;

ARRAYS; ERRORS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; PHOTONS; PLANETS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 11144286833     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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