Experimental Demonstration of a Quantum-Optimal Direct Imaging Coronagraph

Nico Deshler, Itay Ozer, Amit Ashok, Saikat Guha

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Abstract

We implement a direct imaging coronagraph that rejects all light from an on-axis star using a double-pass spatial mode sorter. Our experimental setup can precisely localize exoplanets below the diffraction limit at 1000:1 star-planet contrast.

Original languageEnglish (US)
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
EventComputational Optical Sensing and Imaging, COSI 2024 - Part of Optica Imaging Congress - Toulouse, France
Duration: Jul 15 2024Jul 19 2024

Conference

ConferenceComputational Optical Sensing and Imaging, COSI 2024 - Part of Optica Imaging Congress
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityToulouse
Period7/15/247/19/24

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Instrumentation
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • General Computer Science
  • Space and Planetary Science

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