PIAA coronagraph design: System optimization and first optics testing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pluzhnik, Eugene ^a,e   Guyon, Olivier ^a   Warren, Mark ^b   Ridgway, Stephen T ^c   Woodruff, Robert A ^d  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b Axsys Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d Lockheed Martin Space Corporation   (United States)

^e V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Apodization; Coronagraphy; Diffraction propagation; Direct exoplanet imaging; Hybrid optical design; Pupil remapping

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PLANETS;

APODIZATION; CORONAGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION PROPAGATION; DIRECT EXOPLANET IMAGING; HYBRID OPTICAL DESIGN; PUPIL REMAPPING;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749033086     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670991     Document Type: Conference Paper

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