ARAL: A facility to fuel VLTI instruments with photons

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1079-1088

  Morel, Sébastien ^a   Vannier, Martin ^a   Ménardi, Serge ^b   Biancat Marchet, Fabio ^b   Fischer, Michael D ^a   Gitton, Philippe ^b   Glindemann, Andreas ^b   Guisard, Stéphane ^a   Haddad, Nicolás ^a   Housen, Nico ^a   Huxley, Alexis ^b   Kiekebusch, Mario ^a   Longinotti, Antonio ^b   Phan Duc, Thanh ^b   Schöller, Markus ^a   Wallander, Anders ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial source; Interferometric instruments; Optical alignment

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT FUELING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION);

ARTIFICIAL SOURCES; BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY; INTERFEROMETRIC INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL ALIGNMENT;

PHOTONS;

EID: 19944381834     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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