Coronagraph based on spatial mode sorting (IMAGE)

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Coronagraph based on spatial mode sorting

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To capture an image of the exoplanet without the star, the new coronagraph design uses a mode sorter to isolate and eliminate light from the star and an inverse mode sorter to recompose the optical field after the starlight is rejected.

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Nico Deshler, University of Arizona

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