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High contrast coronagraphic imaging is challenging for telescopes withcentral obstructions and thick spider vanes, such as the Subaru Telescope. Wepresent in this paper the first laboratory demonstration of a high efficiencyPIAA-type coronagraph on such a pupil, using coronagraphic optics which will bepart of the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme-AO (SCExAO) system currently underassembly. Lossless pupil apodization is performed by a set of aspheric PIAAlenses specifically designed to also remove the pupil's central obstruction,coupled with a Spider Removal Plate (SRP) which removes spider vanes bytranslating four parts of the pupil with tilted plane-parallel plates. An"inverse-PIAA" system, located after the coronagraphic focal plane mask, isused to remove off-axis aberrations and deliver a wide field of view.  Our results validate the concept adopted for the SCExAO system, and show thatthe Subaru Telescope pupil can properly be apodized for high contrastcoronagraphic imaging as close as $\approx$ 1 $\lambda/D$ with no loss ofsensitivity. We also verify that off-axis aberrations in the system are inagreement with theory, and that the inverse PIAA system recovers a wide usablefield of view for exoplanet detection and disks imaging.

Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization on centrally obscured pupils: design and first laboratory demonstration for the Subaru Telescope pupil