The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), when completed in 2019 will be the largest solar telescope built to date. DKIST will have a suite of first light polarimetric instrumentation requiring broadband polarization modulation and calibration optical elements. Compound crystalline retarders meet the design requirements for efficient modulators and achromatic calibration retarders. These retarders are the only possible large diameter optic that can survive the high flux, 5 arc minute field, and ultraviolet intense environment of a large aperture solar telescope at Gregorian focus. This dissertation presents work performed for the project. First, I measured birefringence of the candidate materials necessary to complete designs. Then, I mo...
SCExAO at the Subaru telescope is a visible and near-infrared high-contrast imaging instrument emplo...
Two unique wide-field and high-accuracy polarimeters named WALOP (Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimet...
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a future generation telescope proposed to be located in Mauna Ke...
The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), when completed in 2019 will be the largest solar telesc...
Context. Next-generation large segmented mirror telescopes are expected to perform direct imaging an...
Accurate astrophysical polarimetry requires a proper characterization of the polarization properties...
The daytime sky has recently been demonstrated as a useful calibration tool for deriving polarizatio...
EST, the European Solar Telescope, is a 4-m class solar telescope, which will be located at the Cana...
Polarimetric observations taken with ground- or space-based telescopes usually need to be corrected ...
Simulation: Vector Vortex Coronagraph Vector vortex retarders (VVR) are halfwave retarders with a s...
Context. Polarimetric observations taken with ground- or space-based telescopes usually need to be c...
An analytical model has been developed to estimate the polarization effects, such as instrumental po...
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be called upon to support a polarimetric observing capability....
Major outstanding problems in solar physics relate to solar magnetism. Spectropolarimetry offers the...
The polarization model for one of the future generation telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) ...
SCExAO at the Subaru telescope is a visible and near-infrared high-contrast imaging instrument emplo...
Two unique wide-field and high-accuracy polarimeters named WALOP (Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimet...
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a future generation telescope proposed to be located in Mauna Ke...
The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), when completed in 2019 will be the largest solar telesc...
Context. Next-generation large segmented mirror telescopes are expected to perform direct imaging an...
Accurate astrophysical polarimetry requires a proper characterization of the polarization properties...
The daytime sky has recently been demonstrated as a useful calibration tool for deriving polarizatio...
EST, the European Solar Telescope, is a 4-m class solar telescope, which will be located at the Cana...
Polarimetric observations taken with ground- or space-based telescopes usually need to be corrected ...
Simulation: Vector Vortex Coronagraph Vector vortex retarders (VVR) are halfwave retarders with a s...
Context. Polarimetric observations taken with ground- or space-based telescopes usually need to be c...
An analytical model has been developed to estimate the polarization effects, such as instrumental po...
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be called upon to support a polarimetric observing capability....
Major outstanding problems in solar physics relate to solar magnetism. Spectropolarimetry offers the...
The polarization model for one of the future generation telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) ...
SCExAO at the Subaru telescope is a visible and near-infrared high-contrast imaging instrument emplo...
Two unique wide-field and high-accuracy polarimeters named WALOP (Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimet...
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a future generation telescope proposed to be located in Mauna Ke...