Reflectivity and optical surface height requirements in a broadband coronagraph. 1. Contrast floor due to controllable spatial frequencies

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5143-5153

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

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

CORONAGRAPHIC TELESCOPES; OPTICAL SURFACES; SPATIAL FREQUENCIES;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 33748693317     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005143     Document Type: Article

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