Speckle-phase measurement in a tandem-vortex coronagraph

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 5453-5456

  Serabyn, Eugene ^a   Wallace, J Kent ^a   Mawet, Dimitri ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR PHYSICS; OPTICS;

HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; ON-AXIS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 80053405213     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.005453     Document Type: Article

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