14 February 2024 Benefits of adding radial phase dimples on scalar coronagraph phase masks
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Abstract

Current scalar coronagraph focal plane mask designs are performance-limited by chromaticity. We investigate the effects of adding central Roddier and dual zone phase dimples to scalar masks to improve broadband performance by suppressing the chromatic stellar leakage. We present hybrid designs with radial phase dimples integrated with the sawtooth vortex, wrapped vortex, and cosine phase mask. We show that, using these dimples, it is possible to substantially improve the broadband contrast performance of scalar phase masks. We also show that, although adding a phase dimple does not increase the sensitivity to low-order aberrations, suppressing the central leakage of scalar vortex coronagraphs does not restore the aberration sensitivities to their notional state.

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Niyati Desai, Dimitri Mawet, Eugene Serabyn, Garreth Ruane, Arielle Bertrou-Cantou, Jorge Llop-Sayson, and A. J. Eldorado Riggs "Benefits of adding radial phase dimples on scalar coronagraph phase masks," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 10(1), 015001 (14 February 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.10.1.015001
Received: 17 November 2023; Accepted: 19 January 2024; Published: 14 February 2024
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KEYWORDS
Coronagraphy

Spiral phase plates

Monochromatic aberrations

Wavefront aberrations

Scalable video coding

Wavefronts

Colorimetry

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