MUSE opto-mechanical design and performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 909-920

  Hénault, François ^a   Bacon, Roland ^a   Dekker, Hans ^b   Delabre, Bernard ^b   Djidel, Slimane ^a   Dubois, Jean Pierre ^a   Hubin, Norbert ^b   Lantz, Blandine ^a   Lau, Wing ^c   Le Louarn, Miska ^b   Lewis, Ian ^c   Lizon, Jean Louis ^b   Lynn, James ^c   Pasquini, Luca ^b   Reiss, Roland ^b   Roth, Martin M ^d  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ASTROPHYSIQUE DE LYON   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Field splitter; Image Slicer; Integral Field Spectroscopy; Spectrograph; VLT instrumentation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THROUGHPUT;

FIELD-SPLITTERS; IMAGE SLICERS; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; VLT INSTRUMENTATION;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 10444241095     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.554096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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