Exploring high contrast limitations for image slicer based integral field spectrographs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Salter, Graeme ^a   Thatte, Niranjan ^a   Tecza, Matthias ^a   Clarke, Fraser ^a   Verinaud, Christophe ^b   Kasper, Markus ^c   Abuter, Roberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; EPICS; High contrast; Integral field; Speckle noise; Spectral deconvolution

Indexed keywords

EPICS; HIGH CONTRAST; INTEGRAL FIELD; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECTRAL DECONVOLUTION;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CONVOLUTION; SPECKLE;

SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 66949114969     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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