Optical replication techniques for image slicers
Abstract
The Smart Focal Planes (SmartFP) activity is a European Joint Research Activity funded to develop novel optical technologies for future large telescope instrumentation. In this paper, we will discuss the image slicer developments being carried out as part of this initiative. Image slicing technique s have many applications in the plans for instrumentation on Extremely Large Telescopes and will be central to the delivery of the science case. A study of a virtual "multi-object multi-ifu spectrograph and imager" (MOMSI) for a hypothetical OWL-class telescope reveals the need for focal plane splitting, deployable imagers and very small beam steering elements like deployable IFUs. The image slicer workpackage, lead from Durham University in collaboration with LFM Bremen, TNO Delft, UKATC Edinburgh, CRAL Lyon, LAM Marseille, Padua University and REFLEX Prague, is evaluating technologies for manufacturing micro optics in large numbers to enable multi-object integral field spectroscopy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0509684,
title = {Optical replication techniques for image slicers},
author = {J. Schmoll and D. J. Robertson and C. M. Dubbeldam and J. Yao and F. Bortoletto and L. Pina and R. Hudec and E. Prieto and C. Norrie and S. Ramsay-Howat and W. Preuss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0509684},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
To be published in the proceedings of the Durham Integral Field Spectroscopy workshop 2005 July 04-08. REPLACEMENT (Sep 29): Author list updated