Stable deep nulling in polychromatic unpolarized light with multiaxial beam combination

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 32, 2007, Pages 7817-7822

  Buisset, Christophe ^a,b   Rejeaunier, Xavier ^b   Rabbia, Yves ^a   Barillot, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b THALES ALENIA SPACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DARWIN INTERFEROMETERS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA); MULTIAPERTURE IMAGING INTERFEROMETER (MAII); MULTIAXIAL BEAM COMBINATION;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 38849153462     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.007817     Document Type: Article

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