The Segmented Aperture Interferometric Nulling Testbed (SAINT) I: overview and air-side system description

Brian A. Hicks; Richard G. Lyon; Peter Petrone III; Marlin Ballard III; Matthew R. Bolcar; Jeff Bolognese; Mark Clampin; Peter Dogoda; Daniel Dworzanski; Michael A. Helmbrecht; Corina Koca; Ron Shiri

doi:10.1117/12.2234313

29 July 2016 The Segmented Aperture Interferometric Nulling Testbed (SAINT) I: overview and air-side system description

Brian A. Hicks, Richard G. Lyon, Peter Petrone III, Marlin Ballard III, Matthew R. Bolcar, Jeff Bolognese, Mark Clampin, Peter Dogoda, Daniel Dworzanski, Michael A. Helmbrecht, Corina Koca, Ron Shiri

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Proceedings Volume 9904, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 990420 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2234313
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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This work presents an overview of the Segmented Aperture Interferometric Nulling Testbed (SAINT), a project that will pair an actively-controlled macro-scale segmented mirror with the Visible Nulling Coronagraph (VNC). SAINT will incorporate the VNC’s demonstrated wavefront sensing and control system to refine and quantify end-to-end high-contrast starlight suppression performance. This pathfinder testbed will be used as a tool to study and refine approaches to mitigating instabilities and complex diffraction expected from future large segmented aperture telescopes.

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Brian A. Hicks, Richard G. Lyon, Peter Petrone III, Marlin Ballard III, Matthew R. Bolcar, Jeff Bolognese, Mark Clampin, Peter Dogoda, Daniel Dworzanski, Michael A. Helmbrecht, Corina Koca, and Ron Shiri "The Segmented Aperture Interferometric Nulling Testbed (SAINT) I: overview and air-side system description", Proc. SPIE 9904, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 990420 (29 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2234313

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