The Four‐Quadrant Phase‐Mask Coronagraph. I. Principle

By D. Rouan, P. Riaud, Anthony Boccaletti, Y. Clénet, Antoine Labeyrie. 2000

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Annular Groove Phase Mask Coronagraph (2005, methodology): “Current coronagraph designs are either pure amplitude masks (Lyot 1939) or pure phasemasks (Roddier&Roddier 1997; Rouan et al. 2000; Soummer et al. 2003).”
• Photometric characterization of exoplanets using angular and spectral differential imaging (2010, background): “…near-infrared (Fusco et al. 2006; Aller-Carpentier et al. 2008); and (ii) high-efficiency coronagraphs such as the apodized pupil Lyot coronagraph (Soummer 2005 and references therein) or the achromatic 4-quadrant phase mask (Rouan et al. 2000; Mawet et al. 2006) to obtain optimal star extinction.”
• Theoretical Limits on Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Detection with Coronagraphs (2006, methodology): “• 4QPM: The 4-Quadrant Phase Mask (Rouan et al. 2000) uses a focal plane mask which shifts 2 out of 4 quadrants of the image by π.”
• Imaging Spectroscopy for Extrasolar Planet Detection (2002, background): “There has been a great deal of work devoted to improving the performance of coronagraphs with a multitude of analog methods and data analysis techniques (e.g., Roddier & Roddier 1997; Rouan et al. 2000; Spergel & Kasdin 2001; Kuchner & Traub 2002; and many others).”
• Limits of Adaptive Optics for High-Contrast Imaging (2005, background): “Coronagraphs with small IWA exist, but are often prone to: • (1) Sensitivity to tip-tilt and low order modes: This effect is problematic on coronagraphs for which small (less than λ/d) tiptilt errors can scatter light at large outside the IWA (Roddier 1997; Rouan et al. 2000; Baudoz et al. 2000).”
• FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS OF HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING SET BY SMALL SAMPLE STATISTICS (2014, background): “…imaging instruments, 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA or to efficiently cope with the limited size of spacebased telescopes (Roddier & Roddier 1997; Rouan et al. 2000; Guyon 2003; Mawet et al. 2005; Serabyn et al. 2010).”
• The James Webb Space Telescope Mission (2023, methodology): “The short-wavelength coronagraphs use four-quadrant phase masks (4QPM; Rouan et al. 2000, 2007), while the other is a more traditional Lyot design with an occulting spot in the image plane and a stop in the pupil plane.”
• SPHERE: the exoplanet imager for the Very Large Telescope (2019, background): “The near IR channel offers two types of coronagraphs, the apodized-pupil Lyot coronagraph (ALC, Soummer 2005), and the half-wave plate four-quadrant phase mask (HW-4QPM Rouan et al. 2000; Mawet et al. 2006), both being designed to achieve very high-contrast at very short angular separations.”
• Exoplanet Imaging with a Phase-induced Amplitude Apodization Coronagraph. I. Principle (2004, background): “The point-spread function (PSF) obtained by a telescope pupil, even in the absence of aberrations, is poorly suited for high-contrast imaging, and most high dynamical range imaging concepts therefore propose to feed the telescope beam to a coronagraph (Roddier & Roddier 1997; Rouan et al. 2000).”
• Stellar coronagraphy with prolate apodized circular apertures (2003, background): “…size chromatism and the phase shift chromatism compared to other phase shifting techniques, such as the wavelength-independent CIA (Gay & Rabbia 1996; Baudoz et al. 2000a; Baudoz et al. 2000b) or the less sensitive 4QC technique (Rouan et al. 2000), or the achromatic PKC (Abe et al. 2001, 2003).”
• Imaging Extrasolar Giant Planets (2016, background): “…and specialized coronagraphs (e.g., apodized Lyot coronagraph, annular groove phase mask coronagraph, vector vortex coronagraph, apodizing phase plate, and four quadrant phase mask; Rouan et al. 2000; Guyon et al. 2005; Soummer 2005; Mawet et al. 2005; Kenworthy et al. 2007; Mawet et al. 2010).”