Tavrov AV, Kobayashi Y, Tanaka Y, Shioda T, Otani Y, Kurokawa T, Takeda M. Common-path achromatic interferometer-coronagraph: nulling of polychromatic light.
OPTICS LETTERS 2005;
30:2224-6. [PMID:
16190425 DOI:
10.1364/ol.30.002224]
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Abstract
A three-dimensional common-path interferometer is proposed, which can achromatically null out an on-axis source while it maintains the detectability of an off-axis source. A geometric phase in the three-dimensional interferometer introduces an achromatic pi-phase shift to the light from the on-axis source, such that destructive interference nulls out the axial light at one of the ports of the interferometer. Light from the off-axis source, which is exempt from the pi-phase shift, comes out from both ports with equal intensity. The common-path scheme makes the system highly immune to environmental disturbances.
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