Progress on smart focal plane technologies for extremely large telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5904, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-12

  Cunningham, Colin ^a   Atad, Eli ^a   Bailey, Jeremy ^b   Bortolleto, Fabio ^c   Garzón, Francisco ^d   Hastings, Peter ^a   Haynes, Roger ^b   Norrie, Callum ^a   Parry, Ian ^e   Prieto, Eric ^f   Howat, Suzanne Ramsay ^a   Schmoll, Juergen ^g   Zago, Lorenzo ^h   Zamkotsian, Frederic ^f  

^a UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^g DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beam steerers; Fibers; Image slicers; Mechanisms; MOEMS; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; DIFFRACTION; FIBERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MECHANISMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

BEAM STEERERS; IMAGE SLICERS; MOEMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; WAVELENGTH;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 29844442642     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.617217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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