Office number: HL 1125
Email: vkooten@strw.leidenuniv.nl
Personal website: https://maaikevankooten.wordpress.com
Maaike van Kooten is a third year PhD student studying under the supervision of Niek Doelman and Matthew Kenworthy. Working on adaptive optics, she wants to deliver better corrected wavefronts through predictive control methods. By improving the correction, high contrast imaging systems can achieve better inner working angles – seeing exoplanets closer to the host star.
Maaike is also interested in optics and photonics, planet formation, mechatronics, and nuclear engineering.
Papers and Conference proceedings
van Kooten, Maaike, Veran, Jean Pierre, & Bradley, Colin 2017, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems Alternative pyramid wavefront sensors
van Kooten, Maaike, Bradley, Colin, Veran, Jean-Pierre, Herriot, Glen, & Lardiere, Olivier 2016, Adaptive Optics Systems V Fast modulation and dithering on a pyramid wavefront sensor bench
Mieda, Etsuko, Rosensteiner, Matthias, van Kooten, Maaike, Veran, Jean-Pierre, Lardiere, Olivier, & Herriot, Glen 2016, Adaptive Optics Systems V Testing the pyramid truth wavefront sensor for NFIRAOS in the lab
Lardiere, Olivier, Ono, Yoshito, Dave, Andersen, Bradley, Colin, Blain, Celia, Davidge, Tim, Gamroth, Darryl, Gerard, Benjamin, Jackson, Kate, Lamb, Masen, Nash, Reston, Rosensteiner, Matthias, Venn, Kim, van Kooten, Maaike, Veran, J.$an-Pierre, Correia, Carlos, Pya, Shin, Hayano, Yutaka, Terada, Hiroshi, Akiyama, Masayuki, Suzuki, Genki, & Schramm, Malte 2015, Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes IV (AO4ELT4) On-sky results of Raven, a MOAO science demonstrator at Subaru Telescope
Pazder, John, Fournier, Paul, Pawluczyk, Rafal, & van Kooten, Maaike 2014, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation The FRD and transmission of the 270-m GRACES optical fiber link and a high numerical aperture fiber for astronomy