Demonstration of nulling using delay line phase shifters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 816-823

  Van Der Avoort, Casper ^a,b   Mieremet, Arjan ^c   Pereira, Silvania ^a   Braat, Joseph ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c Cosine Research BV ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Nulling

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT EMISSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TELESCOPES;

ACHROMATIC PHASE SHIFTERS; DELAY LINE; NULLING;

PHASE SHIFTERS;

EID: 11144296406     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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