| Testbed name |
Managing institution |
| NEW EARTH Laboratory |
National Research Council of Canada (Victoria, Canada) |
| Contact person |
People willing to give talks |
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Christian Marois
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Christian Marois
Olivier Lardiere
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| Main scientific focus |
Testbed environment |
| The laboratory main focus is to develop new technologies for high-contrast imaging for exoplanet imaging and their spectral characterization, testing new advance adaptive optics solutions, higher performing coronagraphs, and KHz visible/NIR focal plane wavefront sensing techniques. The laboratory will deliver end-to-end solutions for upgrading current generation of facility-class instruments, and for future ground- or space-based instruments. |
Class 10,000 clean room. Humidity/temperature control. 5'x10' floating air-cushion optical table. Building first floor. |
| Key hardware items |
Current status |
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Infrared low noise C-RED2 camera
468 Alpao DM (baseline, will be using a 277 Alpao at first)
HASO
Lyot & vortex coronagraphs
Custom self-coherent camera focal plane mask.
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Assembling May/June 2018. |
| Software, languages |
Is our software shared? |
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