Astronomical demonstration of an optical vortex coronagraph.
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Using an optical vortex coronagraph and simple adaptive optics techniques, we have made the first convincing demonstration of an optical vortex coronagraph that is coupled to a star gazing telescope. We suppressed by 97% the primary star of a resolvable binary system, Cor Caroli. The stars had an angular separation of 1.9lambda/D at our imaging camera. The secondary star suffered no suppression from the vortex lens.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Optics express
دوره 16 14 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008