The S4I prototype: a beam-slicer system dedicated to the new generation multichannel subtractive double pass for EST imaging spectropolarimetry

Frédéric Sayède; Pierre Mein; Jean-Philippe Amans; Jacques Moity

doi:10.1117/12.924993

24 September 2012 The S4I prototype: a beam-slicer system dedicated to the new generation multichannel subtractive double pass for EST imaging spectropolarimetry

Frédéric Sayède, Pierre Mein, Jean-Philippe Amans, Jacques Moity

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Proceedings Volume 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV; 84466Z (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924993
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

For the future European Solar Telescope (EST) the Observatoire de Paris proposes a new generation of MSDP: an imaging spectro-polarimetry instrument. To validate this new generation, we develop a beam slicer prototype that will be tested and validated on an optical bench and on existing telescopes. The prototype called S4I (Spectral Sampling with Slicer for Solar Instrumentation) is under construction and tested at the Observatoire de Paris. It validates the opto-mechanical feasibility of the new beam slicer. The manufacture is now complete: we give a description of the whole system. We give also some results of the first tests.

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Frédéric Sayède, Pierre Mein, Jean-Philippe Amans, and Jacques Moity "The S4I prototype: a beam-slicer system dedicated to the new generation multichannel subtractive double pass for EST imaging spectropolarimetry", Proc. SPIE 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, 84466Z (24 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924993

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