An infrared integral field spectrograph specialized for speckle suppression and the direct detection of extrasolar planets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6269 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lavigne, Jean François ^a,b,c   Doyon, René ^a   Thibault, Simon ^d,e   Lafrenière, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e CIRANO 2020 University   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exoplanets imaging; Integral field spectrograph; Speckle suppression

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED SPECTROGRAPHS; MICROLENSES; OPTICAL DESIGN; PLANETS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EXOPLANETS IMAGING; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROGRAPH (IPS); LUMINOUS GIANT PLANETS; SPECKLE SUPPRESSION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 33749356608     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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