The extreme polarimeter (ExPo): Design of a sensitive imaging polarimeter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rodenhuis, M ^a   Canovas, H ^a   Jeffers, S V ^a   Keller, C U ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSTELLAR MATERIALS; CONTRAST RATIO; DUAL BEAM; ELECTRON-MULTIPLYING CCD; EXOPLANET; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; FIELD OF VIEWS; IMAGING POLARIMETER; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; WILLIAM HERSCHEL TELESCOPES; WORKING ANGLE;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; EXHIBITIONS; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 66249091607     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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