Coronagraph design for an extreme adaptive optics system with spatially-filtered wavefront sensing on segmented telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 535-544

  Sivaramakrishnan, Anand ^a,g   Makidon, Russell B ^a,g   Soummer, Rémi ^a,g   Macintosh, Bruce A ^b,g   Troy, Mitchell ^c,g   Chanan, Gary A ^d,g   Lloyd, James P ^e,g   Perrin, Marshall D ^f,g   Graham, James R ^f,g   Poyneer, Lisa ^b,g   Sheinis, Andrew ^g  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Band limited coronagraph; Extreme AO; Keck; Lyot coronagraphy; Segmented mirror coronagraphy; TMT

Indexed keywords

BAND-LIMITED CORONOGRAPH; EXTREME ADAPTIVE OPTICS (AO); KECK; LYOT CORONOGRAPHY; SEGMENTED MIRROR CORONOGRAPHY; TMT;

DIFFRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 19944423768     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551939     Document Type: Conference Paper

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