Developing a new technology in the construction of fiber lenslet IFUs

Antonio Cesar de Oliveira; Luciano Fraga; Ligia Souza de Oliveira; Bruno Castilho; Clemens Gneiding; Orlando Verducci Junior

doi:10.1117/12.2056647

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7 August 2014 Developing a new technology in the construction of fiber lenslet IFUs

Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Luciano Fraga, Ligia Souza de Oliveira, Bruno Castilho, Clemens Gneiding, Orlando Verducci Junior

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Proceedings Volume 9151, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation; 91514F (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056647
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

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In this paper we describe the recent advances in the development of new technologies applied in the construction of Integral Field Units (IFUs) at Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica (LNA). Our prototype is the Eucalyptus lenslet IFU constructed for the 1.6m telescope at Pico dos Dias Observatory (OPD), Brazil. This first concept was the basis to build two other IFUs with significantly improved concepts: the SOAR Integral Field Unit Spectrograph (SIFS) and FRODOSPEC. All the new technologies used in the construction of these IFUs are described in detail in this paper and can be replicated in similar instruments with optical fibers, with considerable advantages over the traditional technologies.

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Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Luciano Fraga, Ligia Souza de Oliveira, Bruno Castilho, Clemens Gneiding, and Orlando Verducci Junior "Developing a new technology in the construction of fiber lenslet IFUs", Proc. SPIE 9151, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation, 91514F (7 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056647

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