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most citedPhotonic beam-combiner for visible interferometry with SCExAO/FIRST: laboratory characterization and design optimization

5 citations · 18 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Instrumental artifacts in photonic lantern spectroastrometry and their mitigation with PLred

Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Malena Bloom +10

Spectroastrometry is a powerful spectral-differential technique for probing angular scales below the resolution limit, but it is also well known to be susceptible to instrumental a…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: pre-launch reference star list and impact of reference star properties on post-processing performance

Justin Hom, Schuyler G. Wolff, Jessica Gersh-Range +51

The upcoming Roman Coronagraph will be the first high-contrast instrument in space capable of high-order wavefront sensing and control technologies, a critical technology demonstra…

astro-ph.IM2026

FIRST-PL: Commissioning the first visible photonic lantern spectrograph for sub-diffraction-limit astronomy on Subaru/SCExAO

Sebastien Vievard, Elsa Huby, Sylvestre Lacour +18

FIRST-PL (Fibered Imager foR a Single Telescope - Photonic Lantern) is a newly commissioned visible-light instrument on Subaru/SCExAO achieving spectroscopy below the diffraction l…

astro-ph.IM2026

He'e-Lab: A modular testbed for astrophotonics and wavefront sensing development

Sebastien Vievard, Christopher Hamner, Nour Skaf +14

Advanced astronomical instrumentation requires accessible, reconfigurable platforms to validate novel technologies and algorithms before on-sky deployment. We present the design, a…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2024

Spectral interferometric wavefront sensing: a solution for petalometry at Subaru/SCExAO

Vincent Deo, Sebastien Vievard, Manon Lallement +12

The petaling effect, induced by pupil fragmentation from the telescope spider, drastically affects the performance of high contrast instruments by inducing core splitting on the PS…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Photonic chip for visible interferometry: laboratory characterization and comparison with the theoretical model

Manon Lallement, Sylvestre Lacour, Elsa Huby +15

Integrated optics are used to achieve astronomical interferometry inside robust and compact materials, improving the instruments stability and sensitivity. In order to perform diff…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

Photonic beam-combiner for visible interferometry with SCExAO/FIRST: laboratory characterization and design optimization

Manon Lallement, Elsa Huby, Sylvestre Lacour +15

Integrated optics are used to achieve astronomical interferometry inside robust and compact materials, improving the instrument's stability and sensitivity. In order to perform dif…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 4 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2024

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…

astro-ph.IM2023

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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

Single-aperture spectro-interferometry in the visible at the Subaru telescope with FIRST: First on-sky demonstration on Keho'oea (α Lyrae) and Hokulei (α Aurigae)

Sébastien Vievard, Elsa Huby, Sylvestre Lacour +20

FIRST is a spectro-interferometer combining, in the visible, the techniques of aperture masking and spatial filtering thanks to single-mode fibers. This instrument aims to deliver…