Benjamin Gerard

Latest

• CAL2: project update of the NRC Canada facility-class focal plane wavefront sensor for the Gemini Planet Imager 2 upgrade
• Deployment of focal plane WFS technologies on 8-m telescopes: from the Subaru SPIDERS pathfinder, to the facility-class GPI 2.0 CAL2 system
• Performance of the FAST self coherent camera at the NEW-EARTH lab and a simplified SCC measurement algorithm
• Pupil-plane LLOWFS simulation and laboratory results from NEW-EARTH’s high-contrast imaging testbed
• Various wavefront sensing and control developments on the Santa Cruz extreme AO laboratory (SEAL) testbedh
• Additive lithographic fabrication of a Tilt-Gaussian-Vortex mask for focal plane wavefront sensing
• Optical design and preliminary results of NEW EARTH, first Canadian high-contrast imaging laboratory test bench
• Upgrading the Gemini Planet Imager calibration unit with a photon counting focal plane wavefront sensor