Astronomical demonstration of an optical vortex coronagraph

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10200-10207

  Swartzlander Jr , Grover A ^a   Ford, Erin L ^a   Abdul Malik, Rukiah S ^a   Close, Laird M ^a   Peters, Mary Anne ^a   Palacios, David M ^b   Wilson, Daniel W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STARS; VORTEX FLOW;

ANGULAR SEPARATION; BINARY SYSTEMS; IMAGING CAMERA; OPTICAL VORTICES; PRIMARY STARS; SECONDARY STARS; SIMPLE ADAPTIVE;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 47249153953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010200     Document Type: Article

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