Polarized Light and Optical Systems presents polarization optics for undergraduate and
graduate students in a way which makes classroom teaching relevant to current issues in …

Context. The SPHERE “planet finder” is an extreme adaptive optics (AO) instrument for high
resolution and high contrast observations at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). We describe …

An analytical model has been developed to estimate the polarization effects, such as
instrumental polarization (IP), crosstalk (CT), and depolarization, due to the optics of the …

Direct imaging and spectroscopy of terrestrial exoplanets requires the control of vector
electromagnetic fields to approximately one part in ten to the fifth over a few milliarc second …

The Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) for NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
(WFIRST) will constitute a dramatic step forward for high-contrast imaging, integral field …

The flux difference between a terrestrial exoplanet and a much brighter nearby star creates
an enormous optical design challenge for space-based imaging systems. Coronagraphs are …

Using three-dimensional (3D) coherency vector (9× 1), we develop a new 3D polarization
algebra to calculate the polarization properties of all polarization sensitive optical systems …

The Optimal Optical CoronagraphWorkshop at the Lorentz Center in September 2017 in
Leiden, the Netherlands gathered a diverse group of 30 researchers working on exoplanet …

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a future generation telescope proposed to be located in
Mauna Kea, Hawaii or in La Palma in the Canary Islands. The telescope will have a …

Assessing and optimizing polarization performance in the context of ray-based optical
design can be challenging. We describe an approach to this problem that decouples …