7 papers
Demonstrating the integration of a photonic lantern with an all-fiber-based nulling interferometer
Jordan Diaz, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Philip M. Hinz +12
High-contrast imaging of Solar System scale exoplanets and protoplanets demands advancements in instrumentation to access deeper starlight suppression at smaller angular separation…
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…
On-sky demonstration of second-stage wavefront control with a photonic lantern
Aditya R. Sengupta, Jordan Diaz, Matthew DeMartino +14
Ground-based direct imaging of exoplanets at high contrast requires precise correction of atmospheric turbulence using adaptive optics (AO). The planet-to-star contrast ratio at sm…
Reconstruction methods for the phase-shifted Zernike wavefront sensor
Vincent Chambouleyron, Mahawa Cissé, Maïssa Salama +8
The Zernike wavefront sensor (ZWFS) stands out as one of the most sensitive optical systems for measuring the phase of an incoming wavefront, reaching photon efficiencies close to…
Developing a Wyne Corrector for higher spectral bandwidth focal plane wavefront sensing
Dominic F. Sanchez, Benjamin L. Gerard, Bautista R. Fernandez +2
Focal plane wavefront sensing techniques are generally limited to using imaging systems that have below 1% spectral bandwidths, due to the radial smearing of speckles from chromati…
In-lab and On-sky Closed-loop Results of Adaptive Secondary Mirrors with TNO's Hybrid Variable Reluctance Actuators
Ruihan Zhang, Max Baeten, Mark R. Chun +8
We performed closed-loop lab testing of large-format deformable mirrors (DMs) with hybrid variable reluctance actuators. TNO has been developing the hybrid variable reluctance actu…