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The Photonic Lantern Nuller: from concept to laboratory and on-sky demonstrations
Yinzi Xin, Nemanja Jovanovic, Dimitri Mawet +18
This thesis work presents the conceptual design and experimental characterization of the Photonic Lantern Nuller instrument, which uses a multimode-to-single-mode demultiplexing wa…
Quantum-optimal coronagraphy with spatial mode sorting for direct exoplanet observations
Yinzi Xin, Sebastiaan Haffert, Yoo Jung Kim +1
Conventional coronagraphs struggle to reach the theoretical limit of exoplanet detection at close separations to the star, particularly when the telescope has a complex aperture or…
On-sky Demonstration of Subdiffraction-limited Astronomical Measurement Using a Photonic Lantern
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Sébastien Vievard +18
Resolving fine details of astronomical objects provides critical insights into their underlying physical processes. This drives in part the desire to construct ever-larger telescop…
Implicit Electric Field Conjugation with the Photonic Lantern Nuller
Yinzi Xin, Daniel Echeverri, Nemanja Jovanovic +12
The Photonic Lantern Nuller (PLN) is an instrument concept designed to characterize exoplanets within a single beam-width from its host star. The PLN leverages the spatial symmetry…
Spectral characterization of a 3-port photonic lantern for application to spectroastrometry
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Lin +10
Spectroastrometry, which measures wavelength-dependent shifts in the center of light, is well-suited for studying objects whose morphology changes with wavelength at very high angu…
On the Potential of Spectroastrometry with Photonic Lanterns
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Lin +5
We investigate the potential of photonic lantern (PL) fiber fed spectrometers for two-dimensional spectroastrometry. Spectroastrometry, a technique for studying small angular scale…
Spectroscopy using a visible photonic lantern at the Subaru telescope: Laboratory characterization and first on-sky demonstration on Ikiiki (α Leo) and `Aua (α Ori)
Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Sergio Leon-Saval +23
Photonic lanterns are waveguide devices enabling high throughput single mode spectroscopy and high angular resolution. We aim to present the first on-sky demonstration of a photoni…
Visible Photonic Lantern integration, characterization and on-sky testing on Subaru/SCExAO
Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Sergio Leon-Saval +23
A Photonic Lantern (PL) is a novel device that efficiently converts a multi-mode fiber into several single-mode fibers. When coupled with an extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system a…
Laboratory demonstration of a Photonic Lantern Nuller in monochromatic and broadband light
Yinzi Xin, Daniel Echeverri, Nemanja Jovanovic +11
Photonic lantern nulling (PLN) is a method for enabling the detection and characterization of close-in exoplanets by exploiting the symmetries of the ports of a mode-selective phot…
Coherent Imaging with Photonic Lanterns
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Lin +4
Photonic Lanterns (PLs) are tapered waveguides that gradually transition from a multi-mode fiber geometry to a bundle of single-mode fibers (SMFs). They can efficiently couple mult…
Spectroastrometry and Imaging Science with Photonic Lanterns on Extremely Large Telescopes
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Lin +11
Photonic lanterns (PLs) are tapered waveguides that gradually transition from a multi-mode fiber geometry to a bundle of single-mode fibers. In astronomical applications, PLs can e…
Focal-plane wavefront sensing with photonic lanterns II: numerical characterization and optimization
Jonathan Lin, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Yinzi Xin +5
We present numerical characterizations of the wavefront sensing performance for few-mode photonic lantern wavefront sensors (PLWFSs). These characterizations include calculations o…
2023 Astrophotonics Roadmap: pathways to realizing multi-functional integrated astrophotonic instruments
Nemanja Jovanovic, Pradip Gatkine, Narsireddy Anugu +77
Photonics offer numerous functionalities that can be used to realize astrophotonic instruments. The most spectacular example to date is the ESO Gravity instrument at the Very Large…
The path to detecting extraterrestrial life with astrophotonics
Nemanja Jovanovic, Yinzi Xin, Michael P. Fitzgerald +20
Astrophysical research into exoplanets has delivered thousands of confirmed planets orbiting distant stars. These planets span a wide ranges of size and composition, with diversity…
Photonic spectro-interferometry with SCExAO/FIRST at the Subaru Telescope: towards H-alpha imaging of protoplanets
Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Elsa Huby +27
FIRST is a post Extreme Adaptive-Optics (ExAO) spectro-interferometer operating in the Visible (600-800 nm, R~400). Its exquisite angular resolution (a sensitivity analysis of on-s…
Efficient detection and characterization of exoplanets within the diffraction limit: nulling with a mode-selective photonic lantern
Yinzi Xin, Nemanja Jovanovic, Garreth Ruane +9
Coronagraphs allow for faint off-axis exoplanets to be observed, but are limited to angular separations greater than a few beam widths. Accessing closer-in separations would greatl…
Focal-plane wavefront sensing with photonic lanterns I: theoretical framework
Jonathan Lin, Michael Fitzgerald, Yinzi Xin +4
The photonic lantern (PL) is a tapered waveguide that can efficiently couple light into multiple single-mode optical fibers. Such devices are currently being considered for a numbe…
Design considerations of photonic lanterns for diffraction-limited spectrometry
Jonathan Lin, Nemanja Jovanovic, Michael Fitzgerald
The coupling of large telescopes to astronomical instruments has historically been challenging due to the tension between instrument throughput and stability. Light from the telesc…