[Interview] How Quantum Coronagraphs Will Help Us See Earth-Like Planets Around Sun-Like Stars

Our current tech doesn't allow us to block light from Sun-like stars to see Earth-like planets. The brightness difference is just too high. One of the ways we can achieve it is with quantum coronagraphs. What are they and how do they work? Finding out in this interview.

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🟣 Guest: Nico Deshler

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📜 Experimental Demonstration of a Quantum-Optimal Coronagraph Using Spatial Mode Sorters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12776

00:00 Intro

02:26 What is a quantum coronagraph

10:39 How to make one

19:20 How can a quantum coronagraph be used

22:02 Applications for ground-based telescopes

27:48 What's next?

34:14 Current obsessions

38:54 Final thoughts

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