Thickness-dependent optical properties of metals and alloys applicable to TPF coronagraph image masks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6693, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Balasubramanian, Kunjithapatham ^a   Wilson, Daniel W ^a   Muller, Richard E ^a   Kern, Brian D ^a   Sidick, Erkin ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronagraph; Inconel; Ni; Optical properties; Pt; Thin films; TPF

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPH; INCONEL; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

ALLOYS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS;

METALS;

EID: 40749106459     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.732721     Document Type: Conference Paper

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