Building hybridized 28-baseline pupil-remapping photonic interferometers for future high resolution imaging

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Building hybridized 28-baseline pupil-remapping photonic interferometers for future high resolution imaging
المؤلفون: Cvetojevic, Nick, Norris, Barnaby R. M., Gross, Simon, Jovanovic, Nemanja, Arriola, Alexander, Lacour, Sylvestre, Kotani, Takayuki, Lawrence, Jon S., Withford, Michael J., Tuthill, Peter
المصدر: Appl. Opt. 60, D33-D42 (2021)
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
الوصف: One key advantage of single-mode photonic technologies for interferometric use is their ability to easily scale to an ever increasing number of inputs without a major increase in the overall device size, compared to traditional bulk optics. This is particularly important for the upcoming ELT generation of telescopes currently under construction. We demonstrate the fabrication and characterization of a novel hybridized photonic interferometer, with 8 simultaneous inputs, forming 28 baselines, the largest amount to-date. Utilizing different photonic fabrication technologies, we combine a 3D pupil remapper with a planar 8-port ABCD pairwise beam combiner, along with the injection optics necessary for telescope use, into a single integrated monolithic device. We successfully realized a combined device called Dragonfly, which demonstrates a raw instrumental closure-phase stability down to $0.9^{\circ}$ over $8\pi$ phase piston error, relating to a detection contrast of $\sim6.5\times 10^{-4}$ on an Adaptive-Optics corrected 8-m telescope. This prototype successfully demonstrates advanced hybridization and packaging techniques necessary for on-sky use for high-contrast detection at small inner working angles, ideally complementing what can currently be achieved using coronagraphs.
Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, submitted to Astrophotonics Special Issue in Applied Optics
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1364/AO.422729
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01381
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2105.01381
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv