William Thompson

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
• Optical design of SPIDERS, a Subaru Pathfinder Instrument for Detecting Exoplanets and Retrieving Spectra
• 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
• 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