Subwavelength surface-relief gratings for stellar coronagraphy

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 34, 2005, Pages 7313-7321

  Mawet, Dimitri ^a   Riaud, Pierre ^a   Surdej, Jean ^a   Baudrand, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; INTEGRATION; MASKS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE SHIFT; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; PHASE MASK CORONAGRAPHY; STELLAR CORONAGRAPHY; SURFACE-RELIEF GRATINGS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 29344434710     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007313     Document Type: Article

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