Phase-apodized-pupil Lyot Coronagraphs for Arbitrary Telescope Pupils
Phase-apodized-pupil Lyot Coronagraphs for Arbitrary Telescope Pupils
The phase-apodized-pupil Lyot coronagraph (PAPLC) is a pairing of the apodized-pupil Lyot coronagraph (APLC) and the apodizing phase plate (APP) coronagraph. We describe a numerical optimization method to obtain globally-optimal solutions for the phase apodizers for arbitrary telescope pupils, based on the linear map between complex-amplitude transmission of the apodizer …