High Contrast High- Resolution Spectroscopy for Segmented telescopes Testbed

Testbed name Managing institution
HCST Caltech
Contact person People willing to give talks
Dimitri Mawet
  • Dimitri Mawet
  • Nemanja Jovanovic
  • Garreth Ruane
  • Daniel Echeverri
  • Jorge Llop
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    Main scientific focus Testbed environment
    High Contrast Spectroscopy for Segmented Telescopes, Apodized Vortex Coronagraph for HabEx, LUVOIR, Keck and TMT. In air, active vibration isolation, passive thermal isolation (double enclosure).
    Key hardware items Current status
  • Dual source (start+planet).
  • 2 NKT supercontinuum white light lasers.
  • <10 nm rms Au-coated OAPs from Nu Tek (IR compatible).
  • 1 BMC kilo-DM (slot for 2nd kDM).
  • Apodized Vortex Coronagraph (compatible with any 3-plane coronagraphs).
  • Reflective apodizer.
  • Reflective Lyot stop for Lyot-based Low-Order Wavefront Sensing.
  • Andor Neo sCMOS camera.
  • Fiber Injection Unit for High Dispersion Coronagraphy.
    		•  Operational, first light Spring 2018, first dark hole June 2018.
    Software, languages Is our software shared?
  • Linux
  • Matlab
    		•  To be released on Github in the near future.

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