Single mode fiber array for planet detection using a visible nulling interferometer

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Liu, Duncan ^a   Martin Levine, B ^a   Shao, Michael ^a   Aguayo, Franciso ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; MICRO LENS ARRAY; NULLING INTERFEROMETER; SPATIAL FILTER;

EARTH (PLANET); INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL FIBERS; PLANETS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

ARRAYS;

EID: 33751534250     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2005.1559529     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. D. Coulter, 'NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder Missions', Proc. SPIE 5487, 2004.
2. Bertrand Mennesson, Mike Shao, Bruce M. Levine, James K. Wallace, Duncan T. Liu, Eugene Serabyn, C. Unwin and Charles A. Beichman, "Optical Planet Discoverer: How to turn a 1.5 m Telescope into a Powerful Exoplanetary Systems Imager," Proc. SPIE Vol. 4860, P. 32-44, 2002.
3. B.M. Levine, Michael Shao, C.A. Beichman, B. Mennesson, R. Morgan, G. Orton, E. Serabyn, S. Unwin, and T. Velusamy, 'A Visible Light Terrestrial Planet Finder - Planet Detection and Spectroscopy by Nulling Interferometry with a Single Aperture Telescope', Proc. SPIE Vol 4852, 2002.
4. B. Martin Levine, Michael Shao, Duncan Liu, J. Kent Wallace, and Benjamin Lane, 'Planet Detection in Visible Light with a Single Aperture Telescope and Nulling Coronagraph', Proc. SPIE Vol 5170, 2003.
5. Michael Shao, B. Martin Levine, J. Kent Wallace, Eugene Serabyn, Duncan T. Liu, and Benjamin F. Lane, "The Visible Nulling Coronagraph-Progress Towards Mission and Technology Development', 203rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 5 January 2004.
6. Duncan Liu, B. Martin Levine, Michael Shao, "Design and fabrication of a coherent array of single-mode optical fibers for the nulling coronagraph", Proc. SPIE Vol 5170, 2003.