… -altitude balloon using a vector vortex coronagraph. One of the many … performance of the
coronagraph is polarization aberration induced by the reflective optical coatings. A polarization …

… We show how the two polarization aberrations (diattenuation and … We apply the polarization
aberration theory (PolAbT) … -WFIRST– CGI to obtain a performance estimate. Analysis of the …

… of the polarization aberrations on the coronagraphic performance and … polarization
aberration model and the estimation of polarization aberrations and their effect on coronagraphic …

… JPL to give a geometric-aberration diffraction-limited performance and we were assigned
the task to polarization ray trace this design for a detailed performance assessment. Table 7 in …

… In this paper, we present the effect of polarization aberrations on the … polarization aberration
residuals at the focal plane of different coronagraph architectures: Perfect coronagraph …

… analysis program, we have analyzed how for an example telescope, uncorrected coating
polarization aberrations couple light around 10^-5 of the incident light into crossed …

… aberrations including polarization. On top is the result using the as-predicted polarization
aberrations and low-order aberration … the result with the polarization aberrations increased by a …

… to the diattenuation aberrations, they do not affect coronagraphic performance. The difference
between the ϕxx and ϕyy corresponds to polarization-dependent phase aberrations that …

… System Performance Metric The principal coronagraph performance metric is contrast. There
are a few dif- ferent variations of this contrast. According to Krist [56], "Contrast is defined ... …

… polarization aberrations require vector-wave analysis. Instrument polarization limits coronagraph
performance… This paper explores the sources responsible for polarization aberrations, …