The high contrast performance of an optical vortex coronagraph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6288, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Palacios, David M ^a   Swartzlander Jr , G A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraphs; Optical vortices; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL VORTEX CORONAGRAPH; OPTICAL VORTICES; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; STELLAR IMAGE; STELLAR SIGNAL; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS;

ABERRATIONS; BANDWIDTH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPACE RESEARCH; THROUGHPUT;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750471624     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.682088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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