Space-based intensity interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 4237-4247

  Klein, I ^a   Guelman, M ^a   Lipson, S G ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT FUELS; FUEL CONSUMPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; ORBITS;

INTENSITY INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT WAVES; MICHELSON STELLAR INTERFEROMETER; SPACECRAFT FUEL CONSUMPTION;

MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 34548508239     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004237     Document Type: Article

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