An integrated optics beam combiner for the second generation VLTI instruments

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 498, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 601-613

  Benisty, M ^a   Berger, J P ^a   Jocou, L ^a   Labeye, P ^b   Malbet, F ^a   Perraut, K ^a   Kern, P ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: interferometers

Indexed keywords

APERTURE SYNTHESIS IMAGING; BEAM COMBINER; BEAM COMBINING; CLOSURE PHASIS; ENCODING SCHEMES; INSTRUMENTAL CONTRAST; INSTRUMENTAL DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION: INTERFEROMETERS; K BANDS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LONG-BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY; MULTIPLE BEAM; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; PHASE-SHIFTING; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS; SECOND GENERATION; SPECTRAL DISPERSIONS; TECHNICAL MATURITY; VERY LARGE TELESCOPE INTERFEROMETER; WIDE-BAND;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED DEVICES; INSTRUMENTS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTONICS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 66249119364     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811083     Document Type: Article

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