3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Design, Fabrication, and Free-Space Characterization of a Two-Photon-Polymerized Nano-printed Photonic Lantern
Kyra Watts, Natasha Popenoe, Benjamin Gerard +6
Photonic lanterns provide an interface between multimode optical fields and arrays of single-mode waveguides, making them promising components for modal filtering, wavefront sensin…
astro-ph.IM2026
The FastrSHWFS Development & Test Results
Natasha Popenoe, Benjamin Gerard, Dominic Sanchez
The recent 2020 Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics listed habitable exoplanet imaging with future extreme adaptive optics (AO) on 30m-class telescopes as a key priority i…
astro-ph.IM2025
Ground-Based Mid-IR Direct Imaging: The Origin of the Thermal Background on the Keck II Telescope and Correcting Instrumental Systematics
Jayke S. Nguyen, Quinn M. Konopacky, William Thompson +2
Mid-IR wavelengths are of particular interest to exoplanet science due to the fact they can extend the searchable parameter space to planets that are older and/or colder. However,…