Optimizing the broadband performance of TPF's high-contrast imaging testbed through modeling and simulations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6693, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sidick, Erkin ^a   Kern, Brian ^a   Kuhnert, Andreas C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

High contrast coronagraph; Integrated modeling; Speckle nulling; TPF

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

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

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 42149121534     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.731676     Document Type: Conference Paper

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