Laboratory demonstrations of high-contrast imaging for space coronagraphy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6693, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Trauger, John ^a   Give'on, Amir ^a   Gordon, Brian ^a   Kern, Brian ^a   Kuhnert, Andreas ^a   Moody, Dwight ^a   Niessner, Albert ^a   Shi, Fang ^a   Wilson, Daniel ^a   Burrows, Chris ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Metajiva   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Coronagraphs; Space astronomy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICS; CORONAGRAPHS; SPACE ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY; BANDWIDTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 42149141856     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.735004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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