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20192024
most citedIncreasing the raw contrast of VLT/SPHERE with the dark hole technique. I. Simulations and validation on the internal source

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astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Upgrading SPHERE with the second stage AO system SAXO+: non-common path aberrations estimation and correction

Johan Mazoyer, Charles Goulas, Fabrice Vidal +16

SAXO+ is a planned enhancement of the existing SAXO, the VLT/ SPHERE adaptive optics system, deployed on ESO's Very Large Telescope. This upgrade is designed to significantly enhan…

astro-ph.IM2023

Experimental demonstration of spectral linear dark field control at NASA's high contrast imaging testbeds

Phillip K. Poon, Axel Potier, Garreth Ruane +6

Due to the low flux of exoEarths, long exposure times are required to spectrally characterize them. During these long exposures, the contrast in the dark hole will degrade as the t…

astro-ph.IM2023

Laboratory demonstration of the triple-grating vector vortex coronagraph

David S. Doelman, Mireille Ouellet, Axel Potier +5

The future Habitable Worlds Observatory aims to characterize the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets around solar-type stars. The vector vortex coronagraph (VVC) is a main candidate to…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Comparative laboratory study of electric field conjugation algorithms

Niyati Desai, Axel Potier, Susan F. Redmond +5

Future space telescope coronagraph instruments hinge on the integration of high-performance masks and precise wavefront sensing and control techniques to create dark holes essentia…

astro-ph.IM2023

Improving VLT/SPHERE without additional hardware: Comparing quasi-static correction strategies

Axel Potier, Zahed Wahhaj, Raphael Galicher +4

Direct imaging is the primary technique currently used to detect young and warm exoplanets and understand their formation scenarios. The extreme flux ratio between an exoplanet and…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

Random Vibration Testing of Microelectromechanical Deformable Mirrors for Space-based High-Contrast Imaging

Axel Potier, Camilo Mejia Prada, Garreth Ruane +11

Space-based stellar coronagraph instruments aim to directly image exoplanets that are a fraction of an arcsecond separation and ten billion times fainter than their host star. To a…