Polarization compensation of Fresnel aberrations in telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8146, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Clark, Natalie ^a   Breckinridge, James B ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive optics; birefringence; exoplanet; phase; Polarization; polyimide; telescope; wavefront

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENT LAYERS; DESIGN AND MODELING; EXOPLANET; FRESNEL; LARGE APERTURE; MECHANICAL CONSTRAINTS; ON-ORBIT SYSTEMS; PHASE; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RETARDANCE;

BIREFRINGENCE; IMAGE QUALITY; INNOVATION; LAUNCH VEHICLES; LAUNCHING; POLARIZATION; POLYIMIDES; RESONANCE; SPACE TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 80155146816     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.896638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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