Improved high-contrast imaging with on-axis telescopes using a multistage vortex coronagraph

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1506-1508

  Mawet, Dimitri ^a   Serabyn, Eugene ^a   Wallace, J Kent ^a   Pueyo, Laurent ^a,b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL OBSCURATION; HIGH CONTRAST; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT; LIGHT LEAKAGE; OFF-AXIS; PRIMARY MIRRORS; WORKING ANGLE;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 79955571687     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001506     Document Type: Article

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