Abstract
The detection of faint companions to bright stars requires the development of very-high-contrast-ratio detection techniques such as nulling interferometry. Here we present, to our knowledge, the first experimental test of a novel beam-combination method, which is based on coupling the light at the center of a dual-aperture interference pattern into a single-mode fiber. Using such a “fiber nuller” approach, a visible He–Ne laser has been stably nulled to as low as , thus validating the approach.
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