Performance of TPF's high-contrast imaging testbed: Modeling and simulations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sidick, Erkin ^a   Shi, Fang ^a   Basinger, Scott ^a   Moody, Dwight ^a   Lowman, Andrew E ^a   Kuhnert, Andreas C ^a   Tauger, John T ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

High contrast coronagraph; Integrated modeling; Speckle nulling; TPF

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECKLE;

HIGH CONTRAST CORONAGRAPHS; INTEGRATED MODELING; SPECKLE NULLING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33749004818     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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