Broadband performance of TPF's high-contrast imaging testbed: Modeling and simulations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6306, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sidick, Erkin ^a   Kuhnert, Andreas C ^a   Trauger, John T ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

High contrast coronagraph; Integrated modeling; Speckle nulling; TPF

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECKLE;

HIGH CONTRAST CORONAGRAPH; HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGING TESTBED (HCIT); INTEGRATED MODELING; SPECKLE NULLING;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 33750715115     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.680685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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