Instead of single-mode inputs, it accepts light from vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, or VCSELs, each of which already carries six spatial modes. By coupling 37 such lasers through a single ...
To capture an image of the exoplanet without the star, the new coronagraph design uses a mode sorter to isolate and eliminate light from the star and an inverse mode sorter to recompose the optical ...
Schematic of the experimental setup: a spatial light modulator (SLM) generates tailored mode superposition. The MMF scrambles the field. A camera is used to capture the speckle patterns emerging from ...