Demonstration of extreme wavefront sensing performance on the TPF high contrast imaging testbed

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5170, Issue , 2003, Pages 38-48

  Green, Joseph J ^a,b   Basinger, Scott A ^a   Cohen, David ^a   Niessner, Albert F ^a   Redding, David C ^a   Shaklan, Stuart B ^a   Trauger, John T ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b M/S 306 336 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Focus diversity; Phase retrieval; Wavefront control; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPH; FOCUS-DIVERSITY; PHASE-RETRIEVAL; WAVEFRONT CONTROL; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ABERRATIONS; ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOCUSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MIRRORS; PLANETS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACE OPTICS; TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 2342630059     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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