Toward 10 10 contrast for terrestrial exoplanet detection: Demonstration of wavefront correction in a shaped-pupil coronagraph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Belikov, Ruslan ^a   Give'on, Amir ^a   Trauger, John T ^b   Carr, Michael ^a   Kasdin, N Jeremy ^a   Vanderbei, Robert J ^a   Shi, Fang ^b   Balasubramanian, Kunjithapatham ^b   Kuhnert, Andreas ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Extrasolar planets; High contrast; Shaped pupils; Speckle nulling; Wavefront correction

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPHS; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; SHAPED PUPILS; SPECKLE NULLING; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION;

ABERRATIONS; ALGORITHMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MIRRORS; PLANETS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 33749038915     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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