Emiel Por is a PhD candidate supervised by Matthew Kenworthy. His main research topics are Phase Sorting Interferometry (PSI) and coronagraph design.
PSI uses the interference between quasi-static speckles and residual adaptive optics speckles to estimate and correct non-common-path aberrations. This method is currently under development for ERIS@VLT and METIS@ELT. For coronagraph design, Emiel develops methods for optimizing the apodizing phase plate (APP) coronagraph, the single-mode complex amplitude refinement (SCAR) coronagraph, and more.
Emiel is also interested in software development, optics and photonics, and exoplanet atmospheres.
Papers and conference proceedings
Por, E. H. and Haffert, S. Y. 2018, ArXiv e-prints The Single-mode Complex Amplitude Refinement (SCAR) coronagraph: I. Concept, theory and design
Haffert, S. Y., Por, E. H., Keller, C. U., Kenworthy, M. A., Doelman, D. S., Snik, F. and Escuti, M. J. 2018, ArXiv e-prints The Single-mode Complex Amplitude Refinement (SCAR) coronagraph: II. Lab verification, and toward the characterization of Proxima b
Por, E. H. 2017, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series Optimal design of apodizing phase plate coronagraphs
Por, E. H. and Keller, C. U. 2016, Adaptive Optics Systems V Focal-plane electric field sensing with pupil-plane holograms