4 papers
Towards High-Throughput Visible Photonic Lanterns for the EMARCOT Project
Abani Shankar Nayak, Julius Goehring, Marina Centenera-Merino +14
Photonic EMARCOT is an innovative project involving Spanish, German and Australian research institutes that aims to integrate multiple Optical Tube Assemblies (OTAs) using photonic…
Demonstration of a multimode-to-multimode photonic lantern for astronomy
Marina Centenera-Merino, Andrew Ross-Adams, Christopher Betters +14
Photonic lanterns have been widely used in astronomy as low-loss multiplexing devices, typically coupling light from a multimode input into several single-mode outputs. In this wor…
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…
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…