抄録
Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, System Name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Fund Type: -, Overall Grant Amount: - (direct: 14600000, indirect: 4380000)
We studied an unbalanced nulling interferometer(UNI), adaptive optics, and coronagraphs in order to obtain a very high dynamic range optics for direct detection of extra-solar planets. Aλ/600 rms wavefront correction was made virtually when the accuracy of the adaptive optics wasλ/100 rms thanks to the effect of the UNI, and a noise level of the focal image of the coronagraph was suppressed by more than one order of magnitude. An eight-octant phase mask showed a contrast of 2E-8 with a bandwidth of 10%. A four-quadrant phase mask was shown to function as a stable UNI.