LBNL fiber positioners for wide-field spectroscopy

David Schlegel; Bill Ghiorso

doi:10.1117/12.801673

25 July 2008 LBNL fiber positioners for wide-field spectroscopy

David Schlegel, Bill Ghiorso

Proceedings Volume 7018, Advanced Optical and Mechanical Technologies in Telescopes and Instrumentation; 701850 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.801673
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

A new fiber positioner design has been developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to position hundreds or thousands of optical Fibers on a large-field telescope focal plane. Each fiber is individually actuated within a small cell on the focal plane using an r-θ stage. These fiber positioners are the baseline design for the curved focal plane of the Super IFU Deployable Experiment (SIDE) on the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias.

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David Schlegel and Bill Ghiorso "LBNL fiber positioners for wide-field spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 7018, Advanced Optical and Mechanical Technologies in Telescopes and Instrumentation, 701850 (25 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.801673

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