Progress toward science results with the ACES spectrograph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1705-1714

  Reynolds, Robert O ^a   Lloyd Hart, Michael ^a   Lesser, Michael P ^a   Kenworthy, Matthew A ^b   Ge, Jian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; CCD; Echelle; Modal noise; Optical fiber; Single mode fiber; Spectrograph

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHTING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

INSTRUMENT DESIGN;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037958516     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461762     Document Type: Conference Paper

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