APOGEE fiber development and FRD testing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Brunner, Sophia ^a   Burton, Adam ^a   Crane, Jeff ^b   Zhao, Bo ^c   Hearty, Fred R ^a   Wilson, John C ^a   Carey, Larry ^d   Leger, French ^e   Skrutskie, Mike ^a   Schiavon, Ricardo ^f   Majewski, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

APOGEE; cryogenic; fiber optics; focal ratio degredation; FRD; vacuum

Indexed keywords

APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY; APOGEE; CRYOGENIC ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FIBER DEVELOPMENT; FIBER LENGTH; FIBER SEGMENTS; FIBER SYSTEMS; FOCAL RATIO DEGRADATION; FOCAL RATIO DEGREDATION; FRD; GALACTIC EVOLUTION; INSTRUMENT DESIGNS; LIGHT PATH; MATERIAL COMPONENTS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROGRAPH; OPTICAL TESTBED; POLISHING TECHNIQUES; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY; WAVELENGTH BAND;

ASTRONOMY; CRYOGENICS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; FOCUSING; FUSED SILICA; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL TESTING; SILICA; SPECTROGRAPHS; VACUUM;

FIBERS;

EID: 78149267355     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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