Optimizing coronagraph designs to minimize their contrast sensitivity to low-order optical aberrations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5170, Issue , 2003, Pages 25-37

  Green, Joseph J ^a,b   Shaklan, Stuart B ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b M/S 306 336 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraphic telescope; Error modeling; Extrasolar planets; Optical aberrations

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPHIC TELESCOPE; ERROR MODELLING; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; OPTICAL ERRORS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETERS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MIRRORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TELESCOPES;

ABERRATIONS;

EID: 2342570411     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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