supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U2031210 and 11827804);Science Research from the China Manned Space Project (CMS-CSST-2021-A11 and CMS-CSST-2021-B04).
The primary mirrors of current and future large telescopes always employ a segmented mirror configuration.The small but non-negligible gaps between neighboring segments cause additional diffraction,which restricts the...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China No.2021YFA0718600;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant Nos.41904168,42274227 and U1931122);the Chinese Meridian Project。
The scattered stray light of a coronagraph is a type of stray light that is generated by the objective lens as its surface defects are irradiated by sunlight.The defects mainly include dust and blemishes on the lens s...
the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for their financial support of the development of the MODElens and its enabling alignment technologies;the II-VI Foundation Block-Gift,Technology Research Initiative Fund Optics/Imaging Program。
Significant optical engineering advances at the University of Arizona are being made for design, fabrication, and construction of next generation astronomical telescopes. This summary review paper focuses on the techn...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11661161011,11433007,11220101001,11328302 and 11373005);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDA04075200);the International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.114A32KYSB20160018 and 114A32KYSB20160057);the special fund for astronomy of CAS(2015–2016);Part of the work described in this paper was carried out at California State University,Northridge,with support from the Mt.Cuba Astronomical Foundation
Using an optical vortex coronagraph (OVC) is one of the most promising techniques for di- rectly imaging exoplanets because of its small inner working angle and high throughput. This paper presents the design and la...
supported by the NSFC(Grant Nos.11220101001,11433007,11328302,11373005 and 11303064);the“Strategic Priority Research Program”of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.XDA04070600 and XDA04075200);the special funding for Young Researchers of Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics&Technology;the special fund for astronomy(Grant No.KT2013-022)of CAS.;carried out at California State University Northridge,with support from the Mt.Cuba Astronomical Foundation
The light reflected from planets is polarized mainly due to Rayleigh scattering, but starlight is normally unpolarized. Thus it provides an approach to enhance the imaging contrast by inducing the imaging polarimetry ...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
A high-contrast coronagraph for direct imaging of an Earth-like exoplanet at the visible band needs a contrast of 10^-10 at a small angular separation of 4λ/D or less. Here we report our recent laboratory experiment ...
An angular trapezoidal phase mask used for a wideband coronagraph is proposed. The azimuthal phase of the mask is double-periodic and has both trapezoidal and constant parts in each period. This kind of continuous pha...
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...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos. 10873024 and 11003031);supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant ATM-0841440
An adaptive optics (AO) system based on a stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm is proposed to reduce the speckle noises in the optical system of a stellar coronagraph in order to further improve t...
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...