TY - GEN
T1 - Progress on the occulter experiment at Princeton
AU - Cady, Eric
AU - Balasubramanian, Kunjithapatham
AU - Carr, Michael
AU - Dickie, Matthew
AU - Echternach, Pierre
AU - Groff, Tyler
AU - Kasdin, Jeremy
AU - Laftchiev, Christian
AU - McElwain, Michael
AU - Sirbu, Dan
AU - Vanderbei, Robert
AU - White, Victor
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - An occulter is used in conjunction with a separate telescope to suppress the light of a distant star. To demonstrate the performance of this system, we are building an occulter experiment in the laboratory at Princeton. This experiment will use an etched silicon mask as the occulter, with some modifications to try to improve the performance. The occulter is illuminated by a diverging laser beam to reduce the aberrations from the optics before the occulter. We present the progress of this experiment and expectations for future work.
AB - An occulter is used in conjunction with a separate telescope to suppress the light of a distant star. To demonstrate the performance of this system, we are building an occulter experiment in the laboratory at Princeton. This experiment will use an etched silicon mask as the occulter, with some modifications to try to improve the performance. The occulter is illuminated by a diverging laser beam to reduce the aberrations from the optics before the occulter. We present the progress of this experiment and expectations for future work.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.826359
DO - 10.1117/12.826359
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77958128488
SN - 9780819477309
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IV
T2 - Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IV
Y2 - 4 August 2009 through 5 August 2009
ER -