Laboratory demonstration of the birefrigent point-diffraction interferometer wavefront sensor

The direct imaging of extrasolar planets requires extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) in the near-infrared wavelengths. The ExAO needs a high-efficient wavefront sensor (WFS) to measure the phase aberration accurately with a small number of photons. In addition, the WFS in the ExAO is required to run at...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics continuum 2023-02, Vol.2 (2), p.382
Hauptverfasser: Tsukui, Ryo, Kino, Masaru, Yamamoto, Kodai, Sato, Mina, Tohnishi, Mie, Matsutani, Akihiro, Kurita, Mikio
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The direct imaging of extrasolar planets requires extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) in the near-infrared wavelengths. The ExAO needs a high-efficient wavefront sensor (WFS) to measure the phase aberration accurately with a small number of photons. In addition, the WFS in the ExAO is required to run at high sampling rates of 1 − 7 kHz. To meet these requirements, we developed the birefringent point-diffraction interferometer (b-PDI) presented in our earlier paper. We tested the b-PDI in the laboratory with a polychromatic light source with wavelengths of 800 ± 100 nm. The b-PDI showed a relatively high efficiency, comparable to that of a fixed pyramid WFS. The b-PDI has a low calculation cost and a small readout region, which are suitable for high-speed sampling at 6.5 kHz.
ISSN:2770-0208
2770-0208
DOI:10.1364/OPTCON.476318