12 papers
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…
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…
Tricouplers for nulling interferometry with photonic integrated circuits
Anusha Pai Asnodkar, Nemanja Jovanovic, Harry-Dean Kenchington Goldsmith +7
Solar System analog gas giants and habitable-zone terrestrial planets are observationally elusive to conventional exoplanet detection and characterization techniques, i.e. transits…
Technologies and novel components for broadband splitting and coupling in pairwise and nulling interferometry
Harry-Dean Kenchington Goldsmith, Nemanja Jovanovic, Anusha Pai Asnodkar +9
Passive and active photonic components are central to the continued development of astronomical photonic integrated circuits (PICs), although achieving broadband achromatic perform…
Quantum-optimal coronagraphy with spatial mode sorting for direct exoplanet observations
Yinzi Xin, Sebastiaan Haffert, Yoo Jung Kim +1
Conventional coronagraphs struggle to reach the theoretical limit of exoplanet detection at close separations to the star, particularly when the telescope has a complex aperture or…
Experimentally-determined performance limits for joint imaging and wavefront sensing with a photonic lantern
Aditya R. Sengupta, Vincent Chambouleyron, Rebecca Jensen-Clem +16
The photonic lantern (PL) is a focal-plane wavefront sensor (WFS) that can be used for second-stage control of extreme adaptive optics (AO) systems. While the number of sensed mode…