Developments in high-density Cobra fiber positioners for the Subaru Telescope's Prime Focus Spectrometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8450, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fisher, Charles D ^a   Braun, David F ^a   Kaluzny, Joel V ^a   Seiffert, Michael D ^a   Dekany, Richard G ^b   Ellis, Richard S ^b   Smith, Roger M ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cobra; Fiber positioner; PFS; Piezo

Indexed keywords

COBRA; DARK ENERGY; FIBER POSITIONER; FOCAL PLANE; FUNCTIONAL TESTING; GALAXY EVOLUTION; HIGH-DENSITY ARRAYS; IMAGE POSITION; MULTIOBJECT; OBSERVING EFFICIENCY; PERFORMANCE VALIDATION; PFS; PIEZO; PRIME-FOCUS; ROTARY MOTOR; SCARA ROBOT; SUBARU TELESCOPES; SYSTEM USE;

FIBERS; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 84871965532     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.927161     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. Fisher, C., Braun D., Kaluzny, J., Haran, T., "Cobra - a Two-Degree of Freedom Fiber Optic Positioning Mechanism," IEEE Aerospace Conference paper #1185, Version 5 (2009).
2. http://www.newscaletech.com/custom-overview.html#rotary