Effects of diffraction and static wavefront errors on high-contrast imaging from the thirty meter telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Troy, Mitchell ^a   Crossfield, Ian ^a   Chanan, Gary ^b   Dumont, Philip ^a   Green, Joseph J ^a   Macintosh, Bruce ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Diffraction; High Contrast; Segmented Mirrors; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGING; INTERSEGMENT GAPS; SEGMENTATION GEOMETRY; SEGMENTED MIRRORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SOLAR SYSTEM;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33749384941     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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