SINFONI: A near infrared AO assisted integral field spectrometer for the VLT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 704-715

  Thatte, Niranjan A ^a   Tecza, Matthias ^a   Eisenhauer, Frank ^a   Mengel, Sabine ^a   Krabbe, Alfred ^c   Pak, S ^a   Genzel, Reinhard ^a   Bonaccini, Domenico ^b   Emsellem, Eric ^d   Rigaut, Francois J ^b   Delabre, Bernard ^b   Monnet, Guy J ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Diffraction limit; Integral field; Near infrared; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS; CURVATURE SENSORS; DIFFRACTION LIMIT; EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORIES; INTEGRAL FIELD; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-IR; TWO STATE; VERY LARGE TELESCOPES;

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EID: 0001052727     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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