Removing instability noise in nulling interferometers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6268 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lay, Oliver P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nulling; Optical interferometry; Planet detection

Indexed keywords

NULLING; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; PLANET DETECTION; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDER INTERFEROMETER (TPF-I);

ASTRONOMY; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; INTERFEROMETRY; PHOTONS; PLANETS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 33749016776     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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