High-contrast Imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HICAT): II. Design overview and first light results
High-contrast Imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HICAT): II. Design overview and first light results
We present a new high-contrast imaging testbed designed to provide complete solutions in wavefront sensing, control and starlight suppression with complex aperture telescopes. The testbed was designed to enable a wide range of studies of the effects of such telescope geometries, with primary mirror segmentation, central obstruction, and spiders. The …