GLINT is a nulling interferometer downstream of the SCExAO extreme-adaptive-optics system at the Subaru Telescope (Hawaii, USA), and is a pathfinder instrument for high-contrast imaging of circumstellar environments with photonic technologies. GLINT is effectively a testbed for more stable, compact, and modular instruments for the era of 30m-class telescopes. GLINT is now undergoing an upgrade with a new photonic chip for more achromatic nulls, and for phase information to enable fringe tracking. Here we provide an overview of the motivations for the GLINT project and report on the design of the new chip, the on-site installation, and current status.
@article{arxiv.2407.17741,
title = {The GLINT nulling interferometer: improving nulls for high-contrast imaging},
author = {Eckhart Spalding and Elizabeth Arcadi and Glen Douglass and Simon Gross and Olivier Guyon and Marc-Antoine Martinod and Barnaby Norris and Stephanie Rossini-Bryson and Adam Taras and Peter Tuthill and Kyohoon Ahn and Vincent Deo and Mona El Morsy and Julien Lozi and Sebastien Vievard and Michael Withford},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17741},
year = {2024}
}
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Proc. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024 (Yokohama, Japan), Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging IX