Planet Detection in Visible Light with a Single Aperture Telescope and Nulling Coronagraph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5170, Issue , 2003, Pages 200-208

  Levine, B Martin ^a   Shao, Michael ^a   Liu, Duncan ^a   Wallace, J Kent ^a   Lane, Benjamin ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Planet Detection; Space Telescope; Visible Nulling Interferometer

Indexed keywords

NULLING CORONAGRAPH; OPTICAL TRAIN; PLANET DETECTION; SINGLE APERTURE TELESCOPE;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER OPTICS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECTROMETERS; TELESCOPES;

PLANETS;

EID: 2342532522     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.507807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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