SP-436 Project Orion: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extrasolar Planets

Figure 39. - Schematic diagram of the optical system within a given detector. The figure shows the wave-front folding interferometer which produces white, blue, yellow, orange, and red fringe patterns. These patterns are imaged by a lens/grating combination on a photocathode which captains a 16 X 16 CCD array for each color. Representative output from each CCD element is shown at the right (see text for details).

Figure 39. - Schematic diagram of the optical system within a given detector. The figure shows the wave-front folding interferometer which produces white, blue, yellow, orange, and red fringe patterns. These patterns are imaged by a lens/grating combination on a photocathode which captains a 16 X 16 CCD array for each color. Representative output from each CCD element is shown at the right (see text for details).

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