Full integrated beam combiner instrument based on SWIFTS concept

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7013, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kern, Pierre ^a   Le Coärer, Etienne ^a   Benech, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; High angular resolution; Instrumentation; Interferometer; Interferometry; Spectrography integrated optics

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETERS; PHOTONICS; TECHNOLOGY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ASTROPHYSICS; BEAM COMBINATION; BEAM COMBINERS; DETECTION PRINCIPLES; DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER; FRINGE TRACKER; FULLY INTEGRATED; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; INFRA RED INTERFEROMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETER; NEW CONCEPT; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL SIGNALLING; OPTICAL-; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPECTRAL INFORMATIONS; SPECTROGRAPHY INTEGRATED OPTICS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 52649111072     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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