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A standard multimode optical fiber can be used as a general purpose spectrometer after calibrating the wavelength dependent speckle patterns produced by interference between the guided modes of the fiber. A transmission matrix was used to…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-30 Brandon Redding , Sebastien M. Popoff , Hui Cao

We present the updated design of HighSpec, a high-resolution $\mathcal{R} \sim 20,000$ spectrograph designed for the Multi Aperture Spectroscopic Telescope (MAST). HighSpec offers three observing modes centered at the Ca II H&K, Mg b…

The HERMES high-resolution spectrograph project aims at exploiting the specific potential of small but flexible telescopes in observational astrophysics. The optimised optical design of the spectrograph is based on the well-proven concept…

The resolution limits of classical spectroscopy can be surpassed by quantum-inspired methods leveraging the information contained in the phase of the complex electromagnetic field. Their counterpart in spatial imaging has been widely…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-02 Michał Lipka , Michał Parniak

We present the results of an experimental study of an advanced moderate-resolution spectrograph based on a cascade of narrow-band holographic gratings. The main goal of the project is to achieve a moderately high spectral resolutionwith R…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-22 Eduard Muslimov , Gennady Valyavin , Sergei Fabrika , Faig Musaev , Gazinur Galazutdinov , Nadezhda Pavlycheva , Eduard Emelyanov

We present the design and testing of a prototype in-plane echelle spectrograph based on an actively controlled fibre-fed double-pass design. This system aims to be small and efficient with the minimum number of optical surfaces - currently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 H. R. A. Jones , W. E. Martin , G. Anglada-Escudé , R. Errmann , D. A. Campbell , C. Baker , C. Boonsri , P. Choochalerm

High-resolution optical spectrometers are crucial in revealing intricate characteristics of signals, determining laser frequencies, measuring physical constants, identifying substances, and advancing biosensing applications. Conventional…

The accurate determination and control of the wavelength of light is fundamental to many fields of science. Speckle patterns resulting from the interference of multiple reflections in disordered media are well-known to scramble the…

We present a new multi-pixel high resolution (R >10^7) spectrometer for the Stratospheric Observatory for Far-Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The receiver uses 2 x 7-pixel subarrays in orthogonal polarization, each in an hexagonal array around…

We present an Echelle+CCD, high S/N, high resolution (R = 20\,000) spectroscopic atlas of 108 well-known objects representative of the most common types of peculiar and variable stars. The wavelength interval extends from 4600 to 9400 Ang,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. Tomasella , U. Munari , T. Zwitter

This paper presents a sharp upper bound for the spectral radius of simple digraphs with described number of arcs. Further, the extremal graphs which attain the maximum spectral radius among all simple digraphs with fixed arcs are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Ya-Lei Jin , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Typical astronomical spectrographs have a resolution ranging between a few hundred to 200.000. Deconvolution and correlation techniques are being employed with a significance down to 1/1000 th of a pixel. HeAr and ThAr lamps are usually…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Piet O. Schmidt , Stefan Kimeswenger , Hans Ulrich Kaeufl

The results of speckle interferometric observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) in 2019 are given, totaling 2555 measurements of 1972 resolved pairs with separations from 15 mas (median 0.21") and magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Rene A. Mendez , Edgardo Costa , Elliott P. Horch

We present spectrograph design details and initial radial velocity results from the PRL optical fiber-fed high-resolution cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph (PARAS), which has recently been commissioned at the Mt Abu 1.2 m telescope, in…

Recent advancements in silicon photonics are enabling the development of chip-scale photonics devices for sensing and signal processing applications, among which on-chip spectrometers are of particular interest for precision wavelength…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Uttam Paudel , Todd S. Rose

We present here CAFE, the Calar Alto Fiber-fed Echelle spectrograph, a new instrument built at the Centro Astronomico Hispano Alem\'an (CAHA). CAFE is a single fiber, high-resolution ($R\sim$70000) spectrograph, covering the wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Aceituno , S. F. Sanchez , F. Grupp , J. Lillo , M. Hernan-Obispo , D. Benitez , L. M. Montoya , U. Thiele , S. Pedraz , D. Barrado , S. Dreizler , J. Bean

Many areas of optical science require an accurate measurement of optical spectra. Devices based on laser speckle promise compact wavelength measurement, with attometer-level sensitivity demonstrated for single wavelength laser fields. The…

We present intermediate resolution (R ~ 8,000 - 12,000) high signal-to-noise H- and K-band spectroscopy of a sample of 37 optically visible stars, ranging in spectral type from O3 to B3 and representing most luminosity classes. Spectra of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 M. M. Hanson , R. -P. Kudritzki , M. A. Kenworthy , J. Puls , A. T. Tokunaga

To underscore the value of high spectral resolution for the study of low-z QSO absorption lines, we briefly present Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph echelle data that demonstrate how increased resolution leads to dramatic improvement in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Todd M. Tripp , David V. Bowen

Here, we present an astrophotonic spectrograph in the near-IR H-band (1.45 -1.65 $\mu m$) and a spectral resolution ($\lambda/\delta\lambda$) of 1500. The main dispersing element of the spectrograph is a photonic chip based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 Pradip Gatkine , Meghna Sitaram , Sylvain Veilleux , Mario Dagenais , Joss Bland-Hawthorn