• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 13, Issue 2, 021101 (2015)
Zichen Cao, Qing Cao*, Yajun Ge, Rongfei Hu, and Minning Zhu
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  • Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201513.021101 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Zichen Cao, Qing Cao, Yajun Ge, Rongfei Hu, Minning Zhu. Trapezoidal phase mask coronagraph[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2015, 13(2): 021101 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    An angular trapezoidal phase mask used for a wideband coronagraph is proposed. The azimuthal phase of the mask is double-periodic and has both trapezoidal and constant parts in each period. This kind of continuous phase distribution can be employed to avoid the abrupt phase variation of the 6-level phase distribution we proposed previously. Numerical calculations show that this more practical phase mask can still keep its superior performance in terms of starlight elimination, small inner working angle, and good achromatism. It is of great importance that there is no singularity in this kind of mask except for a singularity at the center. This mask design is close to real manufacturing conditions, and the process technology is superior.
    U(x,y)=An=(i)nCn(λ)Hn{J1(ar)ar}einϕ,(1)

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    Cn(λ)=12π02πt(θ)einθdθ.(2)

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    G(θ)={f(θ)0θ<Bf(θB)Bθ<2B02Bθ<π.(3)

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    C0(λ)|λ0=0,(4a)

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    [C0(λ)/λ]|λ0=0.(4b)

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    f(θ)={θc/l[0,l)c[l,Bl](θB)c/l(Bl,B),(5)

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    l=π4c2sincc2sinc+sinccoscsinc+ccoscc,(6a)

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    B=π2c2sincsinc+ccoscc2sinc+sinccoscsinc+ccoscc,(6b)

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    |C0(λ)|FQPM2=cos2(λ02λπ),(7a)

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    |C0(λ)|SLPM2=[cos2(λ02λπ)]2,(7b)

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    |C0(λ)|TPM2=(4πλλ0lcsinλ0λc4πlcosλ0λc+2Bπcosλ0λc2Bπ+1)2,(7c)

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    Zichen Cao, Qing Cao, Yajun Ge, Rongfei Hu, Minning Zhu. Trapezoidal phase mask coronagraph[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2015, 13(2): 021101
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