High Contrast Imaging Testbed Facility (HCIT)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High Contrast Imaging Technology Development
HCIT is a ISO 7 clean room (class 10000), with three optical tables. The optical tables are sits on Minus K's Passive Mechanical Vibration Isolators inside two vacuum chamber. The Chambers provide a space-like test environment (turbulence free and thermally stable). Each table has a supercontinuum laser sources, remote actuation and selection of optical elements, deformable mirrors, thermal sensors, local thermal control loops, silicon CCD/CMOS sensors and one of the tables has an Integrated Field Spectrometer as well.
Vacuum Chamber
Remote Actuation
Supercontinuum Laser Sources
Minus K's Passive Mechanical Vibration Isolators
Deformable Mirrors
Integrated Field Spectrometer
On activity with multiple of collaborations.
Python
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Status of NASA's stellar astrometry testbeds for exoplanet detection: Science and technology overview, Bendek et al. 2021
Prediction and evaluation of the image of the WFIRST coronagraph pupil at the shaped-pupil mask, Marx et al. 2020
Testbed demonstration of high-contrast coronagraph imaging in search for Earth-like exoplanets, Seo et al. 2019
Shaped pupil coronagraph: disk science mask experimental verification and testing, Marx et al. 2018