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Appl Opt
; 55(5): 1006-11, 2016 Feb 10.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26906367
ABSTRACT
A cascade six-level phase-mask achromatic coronagraph is proposed. We show that, for the ideal aberration-free case, the average suppression of the central starlight in a three-stage six-level phase-mask achromatic coronagraph (SLPMC) can reach about 10â»8 over a 40% bandwidth. We also do the optimization analysis of the working wavelength of each phase mask in the three-stage SLPMC. With optimization, the starlight can be stably suppressed to less than 10â»8 (average about 10⻹°) over the whole 40% bandwidth.