An image slicer-based integral-field spectrograph for EPICS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Tecza, Mathias ^a   Thatte, Niranjan ^a   Salter, Graeme ^a   Clarke, Fraser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptive optics; E ELT; exoplanets; high contrast imaging; image slicer

Indexed keywords

DESIGN STUDIES; E-ELT; EXO-PLANETS; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; IMAGE-SLICERS; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROGRAPH; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PHASE A; PLANET FINDERS;

ASTRONOMY; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 78149238544     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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