Optothermal stability describes the rate at which an optical element distorts due to a changing thermal environment. A changing thermal environment can...

doing so is a major technical challenge which requires extreme optothermal stability. All exoplanets that have been directly imaged are both large (more...

requires 10−10 contrast. To achieve such contrast requires extreme optothermal stability. A stellar coronagraph concept was studied for flight on the canceled...

visible. Direct imaging of an Earth-like exoplanet requires extreme optothermal stability. During the accretion phase of planetary formation, the star-planet...

Athermalization, in the field of optics, is the process of achieving optothermal stability in optomechanical systems. This is done by minimizing variations...