Optimal self-calibration and fringe tracking in photonic nulling interferometers using machine learning

Barnaby R. M. Norris; Marc-Antoine Martinod; Peter Tuthill; Simon Gross; Nick Cvetojevic; Nemanja Jovanovic; Tiphaine Lagadec; Teresa Klinner-teo; Olivier Guyon; Julien Lozi; Vincent Deo; Sébastien Vievard; Alex Arriola; Thomas Gretzinger; Jon S. Lawrence; Michael J. Withford

doi:10.1117/12.2629873

26 August 2022 Optimal self-calibration and fringe tracking in photonic nulling interferometers using machine learning

Barnaby R. M. Norris, Marc-Antoine Martinod, Peter Tuthill, Simon Gross, Nick Cvetojevic, Nemanja Jovanovic, Tiphaine Lagadec, Teresa Klinner-teo, Olivier Guyon, Julien Lozi, Vincent Deo, Sébastien Vievard, Alex Arriola, Thomas Gretzinger, Jon S. Lawrence, Michael J. Withford

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Proceedings Volume 12183, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VIII; 121831J (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629873
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Photonic technologies have enabled a new generation of nulling interferometers such as the GLINT instrument, potentially capable of imaging exoplanets and circumstellar structure at extreme contrast ratios by suppressing contaminating starlight, and paving the way to the characterisation of habitable planet atmospheres. But even with cutting edge photonic nulling instruments, the achievable starlight suppression (null-depth) is only as good as the instrument’s wavefront control, and its accuracy is only as good as the instrument’s calibration. Here we present a new approach wherein outputs from non-science channels of a photonic nulling chip are used as a precise null-depth calibration method, and can also be used in realtime for fringe tracking. This is achieved by using a deep neural network to learn the true in-situ complex transfer function of the instrument, and then predict the instrumental leakage contribution (at millisecond timescales) for the science (nulled) outputs, enabling accurate calibration. In this method, this pseudo-realtime approach is used instead of the statistical methods used in other techniques (such as numerical self calibration, or NSC), and also resolves the severe effect of read-noise seen when NSC is used with some detector types.

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Barnaby R. M. Norris, Marc-Antoine Martinod, Peter Tuthill, Simon Gross, Nick Cvetojevic, Nemanja Jovanovic, Tiphaine Lagadec, Teresa Klinner-teo, Olivier Guyon, Julien Lozi, Vincent Deo, Sébastien Vievard, Alex Arriola, Thomas Gretzinger, Jon S. Lawrence, and Michael J. Withford "Optimal self-calibration and fringe tracking in photonic nulling interferometers using machine learning", Proc. SPIE 12183, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VIII, 121831J (26 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629873

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