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Article Contents
1 Introduction
2 Interferometric apodization of rectangular apertures
3 Analytic expressions of the PSF and corresponding apodization function
4 Application of interferometric apodization to stellar coronagraphy
5 Chromatic effects: Discussion on the possibility of broad-band observations
6 Conclusion
Appendix A: Analytical expressions of the residual pupil amplitudes for cosine apodizers
Appendix B: Notes on the numerical computations
References

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