Polarization effects on high contrast imaging: measurements on THD2 bench

Pierre Baudoz; Celia Desgrange; Raphaël Galicher; Iva Laginja

doi:10.1117/12.3020010

23 August 2024 Polarization effects on high contrast imaging: measurements on THD2 bench

Pierre Baudoz, Celia Desgrange, Raphaël Galicher, Iva Laginja

Proceedings Volume 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 130926L (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020010
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

The spectroscopic study of mature giant planets and low mass planets (Neptune-like, Earth-like) requires instruments capable of achieving very high contrasts (10−10 − 10−11) at short angular separations. To achieve such high performance on a real instrument, many limitations must be overcome: complex component defects (coronagraph, deformable mirror), optical aberrations and scattering, mechanical vibrations and drifts, polarization effects, etc. To study the overall impact on a complete system representative of high contrast instruments, we have developed a test bench at Paris Observatory, called THD2. In this paper, we focus on the polarization effects that are present on the bench which creates differential aberrations between the two linear polarization states. We compare the recorded beam positions of the two polarization states with the predicted from the Goos-H¨anchen and Imbert-Fedorov effects, both of which cause spatial shifts and angular deviations of the beam, longitudinal and transverse respectively. Although these effects have already been studied in the literature from the optical and quantum mechanical points of view, their measurement and impact on a complete optical bench are rather rare, although they are crucial for high-contrast instruments. After describing the Goos-H¨anchen and Imbert-Fedorov effects and estimating their amplitude on the THD2 bench, we present the protocol we used to measure these effects of polarization on the light beam. We compare predictions and measurements and we conclude on the most limiting elements on our bench polarization-wise.

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Pierre Baudoz, Celia Desgrange, Raphaël Galicher, and Iva Laginja "Polarization effects on high contrast imaging: measurements on THD2 bench", Proc. SPIE 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 130926L (23 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020010

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