Imaging properties of rotating nulling interferometers

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 5859-5871

  Lay, Oliver P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; INTERFEROMETERS; PLANETS;

IMAGING PROPERTIES; ROTATING NULLING INTERFEROMETERS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 28044465960     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005859     Document Type: Article

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