We present the results of our work on developing fully integrated devices (photonic dicers) for reformatting multimode light to a diffraction limited pseudo-slit. These devices can be used to couple a seeing-limited telescope point-spread-function to a spectrograph operating at the diffraction limit, thus enabling compact, high-resolution spectrographs that are free of modal-noise.
@article{arxiv.1510.02034,
title = {Development of integrated mode reformatting components for diffraction-limited spectroscopy},
author = {D. G. MacLachlan and R. J. Harris and D. Choudhury and R. D. Simmonds and P. S. Salter and M. J. Booth and J. R. Allington-Smith and R. R. Thomson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.02034},
year = {2016}
}