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US 2008/0259447 A1Published application
Spectroscopy of exoplanets from a ground-based telescope
AssigneeAmerican Museum of Natural History
InventorBen R. Oppenheimer
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Abstract
In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an optical device comprises a telescope and a pipescope arranged as a spatial filter to light propagated through the telescope, to confine a field of view to θDL.
Claims14
An optical device, comprising:
- a telescope;
- and
- a pipescope arranged as a spatial filter to light propagated through the telescope, to confine a field of view to θDL.
An optical device, comprising:
- a mechanism for propagating a beam of light;
- and
- a pipescope arranged as a spatial filter to the beam of light propagated through the mechanism, to confine a field of view to θDL.
A method for controlling a beam of light, comprising the steps of:
- propagating the beam of light through an optical device, and
- utilizing a pipescope to spatially filter the beam of light propagated through the optical device, to confine a field of view to θDL.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.