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astro-ph.IM2025
Demonstrating Improved Contrast on the Roman Coronagraph with Spatial Linear Dark Field Control
Thayne Currie, Olivier Guyon, Ruslan Belikov +2
The baseline contrast floor from the Roman Coronagraph's High-Order Wavefront Sensing and Control strategy likely degrades over the course of time, requiring periodic recalibration…
astro-ph.IM2024
Current laboratory performance of starlight suppression systems, and potential pathways to desired Habitable Worlds Observatory exoplanet science capabilities
Bertrand Mennesson, Ruslan Belikov, Emiel Por +34
We summarize the current best polychromatic (10 to 20 % bandwidth) contrast performance demonstrated in the laboratory by different starlight suppression approaches and systems des…
astro-ph.IM2018
Using Ground-Based Telescopes to Mature Key Technologies and Advance Science for Future NASA Exoplanet Direct Imaging Missions
Thayne Currie, Ruslan Belikov, Olivier Guyon +8
Ground-based telescopes have been playing a leading role in exoplanet direct imaging science and technological development for the past two decades and will continue to have an ind…