Small Solutions to the Large Telescope Problem: A Massively Replicated MEMS Spectrograph

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2008-07-15

arxiv.org/abs/0807.2481v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 5 figures, presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 23 - 28 June 2008, Marseille, France. See

Scientific paper

10.1117/12.787012

In traditional seeing-limited observations the spectrograph aperture scales with telescope aperture, driving sizes and costs to enormous proportions. We propose a new solution to the seeing-limited spectrograph problem. A massively fiber-sliced configuration feeds a set of small diffraction-limited spectrographs. We present a prototype, tunable, J-band, diffraction grating, designed specifically for Astronomical applications: The grating sits at the heart of a spectrograph, no bigger than a few inches on a side. Throughput requirements dictate using tens-of-thousands of spectrographs on a single 10 to 30 meter telescope. A full system would cost significantly less than typical instruments on 10m or 30m telescopes.

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