Demonstration of broadband contrast at 1.2 $\lambda$/D and greater for the EXCEDE Starlight Suppression System

Dan Sirbu, Sandrine J. Thomas, Ruslan Belikov +8

The EXoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer (EXCEDE) science mission concept uses a visible-wavelength Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization (PIAA) coronagraph to e…