Fiber IFU unit for the second generation VLT spectrograph KMOS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 390-397

  Tomono, Daigo ^a   Weisz, Harald ^b   Hofmann, Reiner ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b Ingenieurburo fur den Maschbau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryogenic; IFU; NIR; Optical fiber; Robot

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROGRAPHS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; ROBOTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CRYOGENIC ROBOTS;

CRYOGENICS;

EID: 0038635766     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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