supported by the "Strategic Priority Research Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDA04070600);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11003031 and 10873024);as well as the National Astronomical Observatories' Special Fund for Astronomy-2009;Part of the work described in this paper was carried out at California State University Northridge,with support from the National Science Foundation under Grant ATM-0841440
High-contrast imaging coronagraphs, used for the detection of exoplanets, have always adopted passive coronagraph optical components. It is therefore impossible to actively optimize the coronagraphs to achieve their b...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.11003031 and 10873024);supported by the National Astronomical Observatories’ Special Fund for Astronomy;Part of the workdescribed in this paper was carried out at California State University Northridge,with support from the National Science Foundation under grant ATM-0841440
Wavefront sensing from multiple focal plane images is a promising technique for high-contrast imaging systems.However,the wavefront error of an optics system can be properly reconstructed only when it is very small.Th...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 10873024)
We propose a high-contrast coronagraph for direct imaging of young Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby bright stars. The coronagraph employs a step- transmission filter in which the intensity is apodized with a finit...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10873024)
High-contrast imaging provided by a coronagraph is critical for the direction imaging of the Earth-like planet orbiting its bright parent star.A major limitation for such direct imaging is the speckle noise that is in...