3 papers
astro-ph.IM2025
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…
physics.optics2025
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…
astro-ph.IM2025
Jewel Optics I: non-redundant Fizeau beam combination without the guilt
Adam K. Taras, Grace Piroscia, Peter Tuthill
The enduring technique of aperture masking interferometry, now more than 150 years old, is still widely practised today for it opens a window of high angular resolution astronomy t…