Design and construction of the IMACS-IFU, a 2000-element integral field unit

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 624-633

  Schmoll, Jürgen ^a   Dodsworth, George N ^a   Content, Robert ^a   Allington Smith, Jeremy R ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibers; Instrumentation; Integral Field Units; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; FIBERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROLENSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

BEAM SWITCHING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTEGRAL-FIELD-UNITS; REFLECTIVE GRATING;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 10444258965     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.549803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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