10-7 contrast ratio at 4.5λ/D: New results obtained in laboratory experiments using nanofabricated coronagraph and multi-Gaussian shaped pupil masks

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2394-2402

  Chakraborty, Abhijit ^a   Thompson, Laird A ^a   Rogosky, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MASKS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPECKLE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CORONAGRAPH; EDGE ROUGHNESS; OPTICAL TESTS; PUPIL MASKS;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

EID: 21244484296     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002394     Document Type: Article

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