Advancements of the optical vortex coronagraph

2007; SPIE; Volume: 6693; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.734230

ISSN

1996-756X

Autores

Grover A. Swartzlander, Erin L. Ford, Rukiah S. Abdul-Malik, Joshua Kim, Laird M. Close, Mary Anne Peters, David Palacios, Daniel W. Wilson,

Tópico(s)

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Resumo

The optical vortex coronagraph is a promising scheme for achieving high contrast low loss imaging of exoplanets as close as 2λ/ D from the parent star. We describe results using a high precision vortex lens that was fabricated using electron-beam lithography. We also report demonstrations of the coronagraph on a telescope employing a tip-tilt corrector.

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