Outline for PRT Paper 1: Designing Compensating Phase Masks to Null Polarization Aberrations

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Working Title: Mitigation of Polarization Aberrations using optimized thin-film stacks

Or maybe this is II of the series of papers about the ELT's?

Outline

• [ ] Survey of Polarization Aberrations in Astronomical Telescopes
• [ ] State of Polarization in next-generation instruments
• [ ] Prior thin-film studies: MSPI, VLT, TPF, else?
• [ ] Differentiable thin-films with dLux: optimization for polychromatic performance
• [ ] Use Case: Nulling Polarization Aberrations for GSMT's & Influence of residuals on coronagraph
• [ ] Use Case: Nulling Polarization Aberrations for LUVOIR-B (or equiv) & Influence of residuals on coronagraph