Document Astronomy with High Contrast Imaging
C. Aime and R. Soummer (eds)
EAS Publications Series, Vol. 8, 2003
DOI: 10.1051/eas:2003075
The MAII project: preparation to the IRSI/Darwin mission
V. Weber1, M. Barillot1, P. Haguenauer1, E. Thomas1, A. Poupinet2, I. Schanen3, P. Labeye4 and Z. Sodnick51 Alcatel Space, Cannes, France
2 SAGEIS-CSO, Grenoble, France
3 IMEP, Grenoble, France
4 LETI, Grenoble, France
5 ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Abstract
In the frame of ESA's DARWIN mission technological studies, Alcatel Space, supported by ESA, is designing and manufacturing
a nulling interferometer whose aim is to demonstrate in laboratory the extinction of a point source with a stable nulling
ratio of
10-6. This breadboard is presented with emphasis on the integrated optics beam combiner.
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