Echidna - The engineering challenges

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1228-1242

  Brzeski, Jurek ^a   Gillingham, Peter ^a   Correll, David ^a   Dawson, John ^a   Moore, Anna ^a   Muller, Rolf ^a   Smedley, Scott ^a   Smith, Greg ^a  

^a ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Echidna; Fiber positioner; Piezoelectric actuators; Subaru telescope

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; FOCUSING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL FIBERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; TELESCOPES;

ECHIDNA; FIBER POSITIONER; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; SUBARU TELESCOPE;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 10444243377     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550963     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. Anna Moore, Peter Gillingham, Jason Griesbach, Masayuki Akiyama, "Spine Development for the Echidna Fiber Positioner," in Optical and IR instrumentation and detectors, M. Iye, A. Moorwood, ed., Proc. SPIE 4841, pp. 1429-1439, 2003.
2. P. Gillingham et al, "The Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) Project: the Anglo-Australian Observatory role," in Optical and IR instrumentation and detectors, M. Iye, A. Moorwood, ed., Proc. SPIE 4841, pp. 985-996, 2003.
3. P. Gillingham, S. Miziarski, M. Akiyama, V. Klocke, "Echidna-A Multi-Fiber Positioner for the Subaru Telescope," in Optical and IR instrumentation and detectors, M. Iye, A. Moorwood, ed., Proc. SPIE 4008, pp. 1395-1403, 2000.