The Princeton University Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) group has been working on a novel method for direct
imaging of extra solar planets using a shaped-pupil coronagraph. The entrance...
Motivated by the desire to image exosolar planets, recent work by us and others has shown that high-contrast imaging
can be achieved using specially shaped pupil masks. To date, our masks...
Pupil mapping is a promising and unconventional new method for high contrast
imaging being considered for terrestrial exoplanet searches. It employs two
(or more) specially designed aspheric...
