Terrestrial planet finder coronagraph optical modeling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5528, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-8

  Basinger, Scott A ^a   Redding, David C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Modeling; Optics; Space telescopes; Terrestrial Planet Finder

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL TESTING; OPTIMIZATION; RAY TRACING; SPACE TELESCOPES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

CORONAGRAPH; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING TESTBED (HCIT); MODELING AND ANALYSIS FOR CONTROLLED OPTICAL SYSTEMS (MACOS); TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDER;

SPACE OPTICS;

EID: 13444309526     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.560507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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