End-to-end simulations of photonic phase correctors for adaptive optics systems

D Patel, M Diab, R Cheriton, J Taylor, L Rojas… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Optical beams and starlight distorted by atmospheric turbulence can be corrected with
adaptive optics systems to enable efficient coupling into single-mode fibers. Deformable …

Astrophotonics-current capabilities and the road ahead

B Norris, S Gross, SG Leon-Saval, CH Betters… - Applied Optics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Astrophotonics represents a cutting-edge approach in observational astronomy. This paper
explores the significant advancements and potential applications of astrophotonics …

Real-time experimental demonstrations of a photonic lantern wave-front sensor

JW Lin, MP Fitzgerald, Y Xin, YJ Kim… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The direct imaging of an Earth-like exoplanet will require sub-nanometric wave-front control
across large light-collecting apertures to reject host starlight and detect the faint planetary …

The GLINT nulling interferometer: improving nulls for high-contrast imaging

E Spalding, E Arcadi, G Douglass, S Gross… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
GLINT is a nulling interferometer downstream of the SCExAO extreme-adaptive-optics
system at the Subaru Telescope (Hawaii, USA), and is a pathfinder instrument for high …

Six-telescope integrated optics beam combiner fabricated using ultrafast laser inscription for J-and H-band astronomy

AN Dinkelaker, S Smarzyk, AS Nayak, S Piacentini… - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We have built and characterized, to our knowledge, the first six-telescope discrete beam
combiner (DBC) for stellar interferometry in the astronomical J-band. It is the DBC with the …

Experimental demonstration of photonic phase correctors based on grating coupler arrays and thermo-optic shifters

M Diab, R Cheriton, J Taylor, D Patel, L Rojas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In ground-based astronomy, the ability to couple light into single-mode fibers (SMFs) is
limited by atmospheric turbulence, which prohibits the use of many astrophotonic …

Fiber-connectorized ultrafast-laser-inscribed K-band integrated optics beam combiner for the CHARA telescope array

J Siliprandi, DG MacLachlan, CA Ross, TK Sharma… - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A fiber-connectorized K-band integrated-optics two-telescope beam combiner was
developed for long-baseline interferometry at the CHARA telescope array utilizing the …

Inverse design and optimization of an aperiodic multi-notch fiber Bragg grating using neural networks

Q Yu, BRM Norris, G Edvell, L Luo… - Applied Optics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Recent developments in the application of aperiodic fiber Bragg gratings (AFBGs) in
astrophotonics, such as AFBG for astronomical near-infrared OH suppression and gas …

Efficient ultra-broadband low-resolution astrophotonic spectrographs

P Gatkine, G Sercel, N Jovanovic, R Broeke… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Broadband low-resolution near-infrared spectrographs in a compact form are crucial for
ground-and space-based astronomy and other fields of sensing. Astronomical spectroscopy …

Low-loss SiGe waveguides for mid-infrared photonics fabricated on 200 mm wafers

V Turpaud, THN Nguyen, H Dely, N Koompai… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
This article presents low-loss mid-infrared waveguides fabricated on a Ge-rich SiGe strain-
relaxed buffer grown on an industrial-scale 200 mm wafer, with propagation losses below …