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Latest news

  • Vortex coverage in prime time on SVT (Swedish national television)
  • VLT/VISIR to search for planets around alpha Cen with a vortex coronagraph
  • Vortex helps discover a low-mass brown dwarf around a debris disk star
  • New publication on L-band vortex manufacturing and performance
  • 1st international vortex workshop starting today!
  • VORTEX team @ SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016
  • LLSG algorithm published in A&A
  • Welcome Gilles!

About VORTEX

The VORTEX project aims to advance the theory, manufacturing and exploitation of optical vortex phase masks for high contrast imaging in astronomy.

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Research topics

Exoplanets and disks
Image processing
Coronagraphic instruments
Phase mask design
Manufacturing
Optical testing
Wave front sensing
Advanced coronagraphs

Funding & partners

This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 337569

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