Band-limited image plane masks for the Terrestrial Planet Finder coronagraph: Materials and designs for broadband performance

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 116-125

  Balasubramanian, Kunjithapatham ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; NICKEL; OPTICAL DEVICES; PLATINUM;

CORONAGRAPHS; IMAGE PLANE MASKS; INCONEL; TERRESTRIAL PLANET FINDER;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 40749154414     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000116     Document Type: Article

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