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  • Vol. 36, Iss. 11 — Jun. 1, 2011
  • pp: 1972–1974

Common-path achromatic rotational-shearing coronagraph

Alexander Tavrov, Oleg Korablev, Leonid Ksanfomaliti, Alexander Rodin, Pavel Frolov, Jun Nishikwa, Motohide Tamura, Takashi Kurokawa, and Mitsuo Takeda  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Letters, Vol. 36, Issue 11, pp. 1972-1974 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.001972


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Abstract

To suppress starlight for direct exoplanet observation, we propose a common-path achromatic rotational-shearing coronagraph (CP-ARC), which is an interferocoronagraph with an angular-adjustable field rotator. The CP-ARC aims to maintain unwanted detection of stellar light, which can be suppressed incompletely by interference because of the finite diameter of the star. Compared to the previous interferocoronagraph, which had a nonadjustable 180 ° field rotation, the proposed CP-ARC can improve the coronagraphic contrast by several orders if the CP-ARC is combined with medium or large telescopes where the companion-star separation is optically resolved by more than a few Airy radii. The CP-ARC is made robust against mechanical disturbances due to the common-path interferometer principle.

© 2011 Optical Society of America

OCIS Codes
(120.4640) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Optical instruments
(260.3160) Physical optics : Interference

ToC Category:
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology

History
Original Manuscript: February 1, 2011
Revised Manuscript: April 20, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: April 25, 2011
Published: May 23, 2011

Citation
Alexander Tavrov, Oleg Korablev, Leonid Ksanfomaliti, Alexander Rodin, Pavel Frolov, Jun Nishikwa, Motohide Tamura, Takashi Kurokawa, and Mitsuo Takeda, "Common-path achromatic rotational-shearing coronagraph," Opt. Lett. 36, 1972-1974 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-36-11-1972

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