Design of a polarization nulling interferometer for exoplanet detection

Conference paper (2007)
Department
Optics Research Group (AS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: ©2007 Spronck, J., Vosteen, L.L.A., Pereira, S.F., Braat, J.J.M.
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12-09-2007

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Proceedings of SPIE, 2007 vol. 6693

Faculty

Applied Sciences

Department

Optics Research Group

Abstract

We present the design of a new testbed experiment to demonstrate nulling interferometry using polarization properties. This three-beam set-up is perfectly symmetric with respect to the number of reflections and transmissions and should therefore allow a high rejection ratio in a wide spectral band.

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