Development of an extremely coherent single mode fiber bundle array for high contrast imaging of extrasolar planets with visible Terrestrial Planet Finder

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 628-635

  Ge, Jian ^a,b   McDavitt, Dan ^a,b   Miller, Shane ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 211 Bryant Space Science Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Extrasolar planets; Nulling interferometer; Single mode fiber; Terrestrial Planet Finder

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SINGLE MODE FIBERS; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; PLANET FINDERS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PLANETS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 11144341567     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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