The terrestrial planet finder coronagraph optical surface requirements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Shaklan, Stuart B ^a,b   Green, Joseph J ^a   Palacios, David M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; High contrast imaging; Telescope requirements

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; PLANETS; SPACE RESEARCH; WAVEFRONTS;

CORONAGRAPH; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; SPATIAL CONTROL BANDWIDTH; TELESCOPE REQUIREMENTS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749014943     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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