The Gemini planet imager: From science to design to construction

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Macintosh, Bruce A ^a,b   Graham, James R ^a,c   Palmer, David W ^a,b   Doyon, René ^d   Dunn, Jennifer ^h   Gavel, Donald T ^a,e   Larkin, James ^a,f   Oppenheimer, Ben ^g   Saddlemyer, Les ^h   Sivaramakrishnan, Anand ^a,g   Wallace, J Kent ⁱ   Bauman, Brian ^a,b   Erickson, Darren A ^h   Marois, Christian ^a,b,h   Poyneer, Lisa A ^a,b   Soummer, Remi ^a,g  

^a NSF Center for Adaptive Optics   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Coronagraph; Extrasolar planet; High contrast; Integral field spectrograph; MEMS

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION SYSTEM; CONTRAST RATIO; CORONAGRAPH; DETAILED DESIGN; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; EXTRASOLAR PLANET; HIGH-ACCURACY; HIGH-CONTRAST; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROGRAPH; LYOT CORONAGRAPHS; MEMS DEFORMABLE MIRROR; NEAR INFRARED; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE; SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS; SUBAPERTURE;

IMAGE SENSORS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PLANETS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 66949178702     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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