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Laboratory demonstration of real-time focal plane wavefront control of residual atmospheric speckles

Gerard, Benjamin L.; Dillon, Daren; Cetre, Sylvain; Jensen-Clem, Rebecca

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Authors

Benjamin L. Gerard

Daren Dillon

Rebecca Jensen-Clem



Abstract

Current and future high contrast imaging instruments aim to detect exoplanets at closer orbital separations, lower masses, and/or older ages than their predecessors. However, continually evolving speckles in the coronagraphic science image limit contrasts of state-of-the-art ground-based exoplanet imaging instruments. For ground-based adaptive optics (AO) instruments, it remains challenging for most speckle suppression techniques to attenuate both the dynamic atmospheric as well as quasistatic instrumental speckles on-sky. We have proposed a focal plane wavefront sensing and control algorithm to address this challenge, called the fast atmospheric selfcoherent camera (SCC) technique (FAST), which in theory enables the SCC to operate down to millisecond timescales even when only a few photons are detected per speckle. Here, we present the first experimental results of FAST on the Santa Cruz Extreme AO Laboratory (SEAL) testbed. In particular, we illustrate the benefit of “second stage” AO-based focal plane wavefront control, demonstrating up to 5  ×   contrast improvement with FAST closed-loop compensation of evolving residual atmospheric turbulence—both for low and high order spatial modes—down to 20-ms timescales.

Citation

Gerard, B. L., Dillon, D., Cetre, S., & Jensen-Clem, R. (2022). Laboratory demonstration of real-time focal plane wavefront control of residual atmospheric speckles. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 8(3), Article 039001. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jatis.8.3.039001

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 17, 2022
Online Publication Date Jul 4, 2022
Publication Date 2022
Deposit Date Mar 28, 2023
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2023
Journal Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Electronic ISSN 2329-4221
Publisher Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 8
Issue 3
Article Number 039001
DOI https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jatis.8.3.039001
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1175906

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