Path length control in a nulling coronagraph with a MEMS deformable mirror and a calibration interferometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6888, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rao, Shanti R ^a   Wallace, J Kent ^a   Samuele, Rocco ^b   Chakrabarti, Supriya ^c   Cook, Timothy ^c   Hicks, Brian ^c   Jung, Paul ^c   Lane, Benjamin ^d   Levine, B Martin ^a   Mendillo, Chris ^c   Schmidtlin, Edouard ^e   Shao, Mike ^a   Stewart, Jason B ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Calibration interferometer; Deformable mirror; Extrasolar planet; MEMS adaptive optics; Nulling coronagraph

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION INTERFEROMETER; DEFORMABLE MIRROR; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; EXTRASOLAR PLANET; MEMS ADAPTIVE OPTICS; NULLING CORONAGRAPH; PHASE ERRORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS;

MEMS;

EID: 41149092368     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.763652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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