Occulter design for THEIA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7440, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kasdin, N Jeremy ^a   Cady, Eric J ^a   Dumont, Philip J ^b   Lisman, P Douglas ^b   Shaklan, Stuart B ^b   Soummer, Remi ^c   Spergel, David N ^a   Vanderbei, Robert J ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STScI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EXOPLANET; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; MISSION CONCEPTS; OCCULTERS; SCIENCE PROJECTS; SPACE-BASED; WIDE FIELD IMAGING;

DIFFRACTION; HYBRID SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

DESIGN;

EID: 77958126721     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826518     Document Type: Conference Paper

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