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High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 8. Dark zone demonstration with simultaneous closed loop low-order wavefront sensing and control

Imageur à haut contraste pour les télescopes à ouverture complexe (HICAT) : 8. Démonstration de Dark Zone avec boucles fermées simultanées à bas ordres

Jean-François Sauvage
Hari B Subedi
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Résumé

We present recent laboratory results demonstrating high-contrast coronagraphy for the future space-based large IR/Optical/Ultraviolet telescope recommended by the Decadal Survey. The High-contrast Imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HiCAT) testbed aims to implement a system-level hardware demonstration for segmented aperture coronagraphs with wavefront control. The telescope hardware simulator employs a segmented deformable mirror with 37 hexagonal segments that can be controlled in piston, tip, and tilt. In addition, two continuous deformable mirrors are used for high-order wavefront sensing and control. The low-order sensing subsystem includes a dedicated tip-tilt stage, a coronagraphic target acquisition camera, and a Zernike wavefront sensor that is used to measure and correct low-order aberration drifts. We explore the performance of a segmented aperture coronagraph both in "static" operations (limited by natural drifts and instabilities) and in "dynamic" operations (in the presence of artificial wavefront drifts added to the deformable mirrors), and discuss the estimation and control strategies used to reach and maintain the dark-zone contrast using our low-order wavefront sensing and control. We summarize experimental results that quantify the performance of the testbed in terms of contrast, inner/outer working angle and bandpass, and analyze limiting factors.
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hal-03935132 , version 1 (23-01-2023)

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Rémi Soummer, Emiel H Por, Raphaël Pourcelot, Susan Redmond, Iva Laginja, et al.. High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 8. Dark zone demonstration with simultaneous closed loop low-order wavefront sensing and control. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, Jul 2022, Montréal, Canada. ⟨10.1117/12.2630444⟩. ⟨hal-03935132⟩
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