Fibre systems for future astronomy: anomalous wavelength-temperature effects

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Jul 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007mnras.379..143p&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 379, Issue 1, pp. 143-150.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Instrumentation: Spectrographs, Techniques: Spectroscopic

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Focal ratio degradation is an important property of optical fibres that determines the design and cost of instruments using fibres. Motivated by the importance of fibres in feeding instruments on Extremely Large Telescopes, the need for cryogenic-cooling to reduce thermal background and the desire for broad-band performance, we have studied the dependency of focal ratio degradation (FRD) on both temperature and wavelength. This shows a small but significant reduction in performance when cooled as expected from previous work. We also find an increase in FRD with wavelength broadly consistent with theory at room temperature but this dependency reverses in sign when the fibres are cooled to 77K, contrary to existing theory. We parameterize the wavelength dependency by an ad hoc extension to an existing model but it is clear that existing theory does not provide a good description of the operation of fibres in astronomical systems. This unexpected behaviour, which may relate to frozen-in stress from the manufacturing process, will need to be taken into account when designing future fibre systems.

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