Coronagraph mask tolerances for exo-earth detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5905, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-14

  Lay, Oliver P ^a   Green, Joseph J ^a   Hoppe, Daniel J ^a   Shaklan, Stuart B ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; High contrast imaging; Planet detection

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPHS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS (DM); HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; PLANET DETECTION;

DEMODULATION; ERROR CORRECTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PLANETS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 29844451485     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.618063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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