FINCH: Time-dependent simulation of nulling interferometry for the DARWIN mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5497, Issue , 2004, Pages 226-236

  Ergenzinger, Klaus ^a   Kersten, Michael ^a   Sesselmann, Rainer ^a   Schwarz, Raphael ^a   Johann, Ulrich ^a   Wilhelm, Rainer ^b   Scales, Kevin ^b   Erd, Christian ^c  

^a AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BeamWarrior; DARWIN; FINCH; Modal filtering; Nulling Interferometry; Single mode fiber

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHASE SHIFTERS; SATELLITE SIMULATORS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPACE RESEARCH;

BEAMWARRIOR; DARWIN; FINCH; MODEL FILTERING; NULLING INTERFEROMETRY;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 12344334739     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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