Hexabundles: Imaging fiber arrays for low-light astronomical applications

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2649-2661

  Bland Hawthorn, Joss ^a   Bryant, Julia ^a   Robertson, Gordon ^a   Gillingham, Peter ^b   O'Byrne, John ^a   Cecil, Gerald ^c   Haynes, Roger ^b,d   Croom, Scott ^a   Ellis, Simon ^a   Maack, Martin ^e   Skovgaard, Peter ^e   Noordegraaf, Danny ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIMODE FIBERS; SPHERES;

ASTRONOMICAL APPLICATION; CELESTIAL SOURCES; CELESTIAL SPHERE; FILL FACTOR; IMAGING FIBER BUNDLE; IMAGING FIBERS; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; NON-CIRCULAR; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SPATIAL MULTIPLEX; SPECTROSCOPIC INFORMATION; SURVEY INSTRUMENTS;

FIBERS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION;

ASTRONOMY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 79851490513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002649     Document Type: Article

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