Stellar coronagraphs for telescopes with arbitrary pupils

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5169, Issue , 2003, Pages 228-237

  Codona, Johanan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Coronagraphs; Multi segment telescopes

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

LYOT STOP; MULTI SEGMENT TELESCOPE APERTURE; STELLAR CORONAGRAPHS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 1842451737     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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