Observing the solar corona with a tunable Fabry-Perot filter

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 31, 2008, Pages 5744-5749

  Noble, Matthew W ^a   Rust, David M ^a   Bernasconi, Pietro N ^a   Pasachoff, Jay M ^b,c   Babcock, Bryce A ^b   Bruck, Megan A ^b,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ETALONS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CORONAL PLASMAS; EMISSION LINES; FABRY-PEROT ETALONS; FIELD OF VIEWS; LINE OF SIGHT; LITHIUM NIOBATE WAFERS; SPECTRAL EMISSION; TUNABLE FABRY-PEROT FILTERS;

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 60649121440     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.005744     Document Type: Article

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