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Completed TRL 4 (started at 3, targeting 4)
Develop geometric phase masks optimized for segmented aperture vortex coronagraphs, achieving extreme broadband starlight suppression and high exoplanet light throughput, enabling exoplanet spectral characterization. Demonstrate segmented aperture starlight suppression with a reflective pupil-plane GPMS on a coronagraph testbed with active wavefront control
Segmented aperture coronagraphs achieving broadband 10^(−10) contrast with a factor of 2 improvement in exoplanet throughput possible over existing state of the art achromatic apodized vortex coronagraph designs
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