Development of speckle nulling technique for the Savart-plate lateral-shearing interferometric nuller for exoplanets (SPLINE)

Kenta Yoneta; Naoshi Murakami; Takayuki Kotani; Hajime Kawahara; Taro Matsuo; Naoshi Baba; Motohide Tamura

doi:10.1117/12.2231950

22 July 2016 Development of speckle nulling technique for the Savart-plate lateral-shearing interferometric nuller for exoplanets (SPLINE)

Kenta Yoneta, Naoshi Murakami, Takayuki Kotani, Hajime Kawahara, Taro Matsuo, Naoshi Baba, Motohide Tamura

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Proceedings Volume 9912, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II; 99126I (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231950
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Savart-Plate Lateral-shearing Interferometric Nuller for Exoplanets (SPLINE) is a kind of a visible nulling coronagraph for directly detecting exoplanets. The SPLINE consists of two crossed polarizers and a Savart plate placed between them. Theoretically the SPLINE realizes perfect cancellation of starlight. However, achievable contrast is limited by residual stellar speckles due to wavefront aberration caused by imperfect optical surfaces of the optical elements. For reducing the residual stellar speckles of the SPLINE, we propose a speckle nulling technique using a Liquid-Crystal Spatial Light Modulator (LCSLM) to create a dark hole. For the speckle nulling, we apply the Self-Coherent Camera (SCC) technique to the SPLINE for wavefront sensing in the focal plane. We report our recent progress on computer simulation and preliminary laboratory experiments of the speckle nulling technique applied to the SPLINE.

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Kenta Yoneta, Naoshi Murakami, Takayuki Kotani, Hajime Kawahara, Taro Matsuo, Naoshi Baba, and Motohide Tamura "Development of speckle nulling technique for the Savart-plate lateral-shearing interferometric nuller for exoplanets (SPLINE)", Proc. SPIE 9912, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II, 99126I (22 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231950

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