Effects of optical-density and phase dispersion of an imperfect band-limited occulting mask on the broadband performance of a TPF coronagraph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6693, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sidick, Erkin ^a   Balasubramanian, Kunjithapatham ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

High contrast coronagraph; Integrated modeling; Speckle nulling; TPF

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; PLANETS;

HIGH-CONTRAST CORONAGRAPH; INTEGRATED MODELING; SPECKLE-NULLING;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 40749156578     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.731678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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