HCIT Broadband Contrast Performance Sensitivity Studies

Erkin Sidick; Stuart Shaklan; Kunjithapatham Balasubramanian

doi:10.1117/12.979456

15 October 2012 HCIT broadband contrast performance sensitivity studies

Erkin Sidick, Stuart Shaklan, Kunjithapatham Balasubramanian

Proceedings Volume 8520, Unconventional Imaging and Wavefront Sensing 2012; 85200M (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.979456
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The High Contrast Imaging Testbed (HCIT) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory employs a broadband wavefront correction algorithm called Electric Field Conjugation (EFC) to obtain the required 10-¹⁰ contrast. This algorithm works with one deformable mirror (DM) to estimate the electric-field to be controlled, and with one or multiple DM’s to create a “darkhole” in a predefined region of the image plane where terrestrial planets would be found. We have investigated the effects of absorbing dust particles on a flat optic, absorbing spots on the occulting mask, dead actuators on the DM, and the effects of control bandwidth on the efficiency of the EFC algorithm in a Lyot coronagraph configuration. The structural design of the optical system as well as the parameters of various optical elements used in the analysis is drawn from those of the HCIT system that have been implemented with one DM. The simulation takes into account the surface errors of various optical elements. Results of some of these studies have been verified by actual measurements.

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Erkin Sidick, Stuart Shaklan, and Kunjithapatham Balasubramanian "HCIT broadband contrast performance sensitivity studies", Proc. SPIE 8520, Unconventional Imaging and Wavefront Sensing 2012, 85200M (15 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.979456

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