Lithium niobate Fabry-Perot etalons in double-pass configuration for spectral filtering in the visible imager magnetograph IMaX for the SUNRISE mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Alvarez Herrero A ^a   Belenguer, T ^a   Pastor, C ^a   Heredero, R L ^a   Ramos, G ^a   Martinez Pillet, V ^b   Bonet Navarro, J A ^b  

^a Instituto National de Técnica Aeroespacial   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Balloon borne telescopes; Fabry Perot etalons; Lithium Niobate; Magnetographs; Polarimetry; Sun

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETALONS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SUN;

BALLOON BORNE TELESCOPES; SPECTRAL FILTERING; STRATOSPHERIC BALLOONS; WAVEFRONT TRANSMISSION ERRORS;

MAGNETOMETERS;

EID: 33749006885     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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