The visible nulling coronagraph - Architecture definition and technology development status

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Levine, B Martin ^a   Aguayo, Francisco ^a   Bifano, Thomas ^b,c   Fregoso, S Felipe ^a   Green, Joseph J ^a   Lane, Benjamin F ^d   Liu, Duncan T ^a   Mennesson, Bertrand ^a   Rao, Shanti ^a   Samuele, Rocco ^e   Shao, Michael ^a   Schmidtlin, Edouard ^a   Serabyn, Eugene ^a   Stewart, Jason ^f   Wallace, J Kent ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON MICROMACHINES CORPORATION   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^f Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Extra solar Planet Detection; High Contrast Imaging; Nulling Interferometer; Post suppression Wavefront Sensing; Space Instrumentation

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPHS; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; NULLING CORONAGRAPH INSTRUMENTS; POST SUPPRESSION WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ATTENUATION; COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; FIBERS; INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; PLANETS; WAVEFRONTS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749039692     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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