Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2004
In a few years, the VLTI will be able to combine light from 4 to 8telescopes equipped with adaptive optics. In order to exploit thefull VLTI infrastructure, a second generation instrument, based onthe densified pupil concept (VIDA), has been proposed for veryhigh resolution direct imaging and coronagraphy. This paperpresents some possible coronagraphic devices providing a totalstar extinction on the VLTI when there are no phase errors.Lastly, the expected performances considering cophasing andadaptive optics residual errors are also presented.