Sub-Rayleigh optical vortex coronagraphy

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2445-2451

  Mari, E ^a   Tamburini, F ^a   Swartzlander, G A ^b   Bianchini, A ^a   Barbieri, C ^a   Romanato, F ^a   Thide B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOURCE SEPARATION;

ANGULAR DISTANCE; ANGULAR SEPARATION; CORONAGRAPHY; OPTICAL PATH; OPTICAL VORTICES; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; RAYLEIGH; SPIRAL PHASE PLATES; SUPERRESOLUTION; TWO SOURCES;

VORTEX FLOW;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; TELESCOPE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TELESCOPES;

EID: 84856424800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002445     Document Type: Article

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