Testing the APLC on the LAO ExAO testbed

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Thomas, Sandrine J ^a   Soummer, Ŕemi ^b   Dillon, Daren ^a   Macintosh, Bruce ^a,c   Evans, Julia W ^c   Gavel, Donald ^a   Sivaramakrishnan, Anand ^b   Marois, Christian ^d   Oppenheimer, Ben R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extreme adaptive optics; High contrast imaging

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE ERRORS; APODIZER; BLACK CHROME; DARK ZONE; EXTREME ADAPTIVE OPTICS; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; LYOT CORONAGRAPHS; MEMS DEFORMABLE MIRROR; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION; WAVEFRONT PROPAGATION;

TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 65449155716     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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