Laboratory demonstration of low order wavefront control using light reflected off the vortex coronagraph

arXiv:2607.28603 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-07-30 · Read on arXiv

Clarissa R. Do Ó, Kane Sjoberg, Luke Lamitina, Susan Redmond, Dimitri Mawet, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Siria Alicata

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-07-30

Comments: Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+Instrumentation. 13 pages, 8 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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