NEW EARTH Laboratory
National Research Council of Canada (Victoria, Canada)
The laboratory main focus is to develop new technologies for high-contrast imaging for exoplanet imaging and their spectral characterization, testing new advance adaptive optics solutions, higher performing coronagraphs, and KHz visible/NIR focal plane wavefront sensing techniques. The laboratory will deliver end-to-end solutions for upgrading current generation of facility-class instruments, and for future ground- or space-based instruments.
Class 10,000 clean room.
Humidity/temperature control.
5'x10' floating air-cushion optical table. Building first floor.
Infrared low noise C-RED2 camera
468 Alpao DM (baseline, will be using a 277 Alpao at first)
HASO
Lyot & vortex coronagraphs
custom self-coherent camera focal plane mask.
Assembling May/June 2018.
Upgrading the Gemini Planet Imager calibration unit with a photon counting focal plane wavefront sensor, Marois et al. 2020
Optical design and preliminary results of NEW EARTH, first Canadian high-contrast imaging laboratory test bench, Lardière et al. 2020