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most citedExperimental and on-sky demonstration of spectrally dispersed wavefront sensing using a photonic lantern

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physics.optics2026

Overcoming the low signal-to-noise problem for hybrid mode-selective photonic lantern-based wavefront correction using machine learning

Nathan K Long, Barnaby Norris, Daniel S Dahl +10

Hybrid mode-selective photonic lanterns transform an input complex point-spread function into several single-mode outputs, where a selected core feeds the fundamental mode to a pho…

physics.optics2026

Seidr update: photonic 'black magic' for high-contrast interferometry using kernel-nulling and photonic lanterns

Nathan K Long, Daniel S Dahl, Christopher H Betters +13

Seidr is a new interferometric beam combiner within the Asgard Suite, utilizing infrastructure common to the BIFROST instrument at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Seidr co…

physics.optics2026

Empirical verification of principal mode orthogonality and relative phase calibration in photonic lanterns

Adam K. Taras, Barnaby R. M. Norris, Christopher Betters +6

Photonic lanterns efficiently map input spatial modes to single-mode outputs for applications like high angular resolution imaging and nulling interferometry. However, manufacturin…

physics.optics2026

Wavelength-Dependent Evolution of Full-Field Transfer Matrices in Photonic Lanterns

Caleb Dobias, Miguel Römer, Swati Bhargava +10

A fiber-based photonic lantern can couple an array of single-mode optical fibers to the guided modes of a multimode fiber, with the mapping between the single-mode fibers and guide…

physics.optics20251 cited

Illuminating the lantern: coherent, spectro-polarimetric characterisation of a multimode converter

Adam K. Taras, Barnaby R. M. Norris, Christopher Betters +4

While photonic lanterns efficiently and uniquely map a set of input modes to single-mode outputs (or vice versa), the optical mode transfer matrix of any particular fabricated devi…

physics.optics2023

Demonstration of a photonic lantern focal-plane wavefront sensor: measurement of atmospheric wavefront error modes and low wind effect in the non-linear regime

Jin Wei, Barnaby Norris, Christopher Betters +1

Here we present a laboratory analysis of the use of a 19-core photonic lantern (PL) in combination with neural network (NN) algorithms as an efficient focal plane wavefront sensor…