An innovative integral field unit upgrade with 3D-printed micro-lenses for the RHEA at Subaru

Theodoros Anagnos, Pascal Maier, Philipp Hottinger, Christopher H. Betters, Tobias Feger, Sergio G. Leon-Saval, Itandehui Gris-Sanchez, Stephanos Yerolatsitis, Julien Lozi, Tim A. Birks, Sebastien Vievard, Nemanja Jovanovic, Adam D. Rains, Michael J. Ireland, Robert J. Harris, Blaise C. Kuo Tiong, Olivier Guyon, Barnaby Norris, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Matthias BlaicherYulin Xu, Moritz Straub, Jörg Uwe Pott, Oliver Sawodny, Philip L. Neureuther, David W. Coutts, Christian Schwab, Christian Koos, Andreas Quirrenbach

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

In the new era of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) currently under construction, challenging requirements drive spectrograph designs towards techniques that efficiently use a facility's light collection power. Operating in the single-mode (SM) regime, close to the diffraction limit, reduces the footprint of the instrument compared to a conventional high-resolving power spectrograph. The custom built injection fiber system with 3D-printed microlenses on top of it for the replicable high-resolution exoplanet and asteroseismology spectrograph (RHEA) at Subaru in combination with extreme adaptive optics of SCExAO, proved its high efficiency in a lab environment, manifesting up to ∼77% of the theoretical predicted performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV
EditorsRamon Navarro, Roland Geyl
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510636897
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
EventAdvances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: Dec 14 2020Dec 22 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume11451
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceAdvances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period12/14/2012/22/20

Keywords

  • SCExAO
  • astrophotonics
  • diffraction-limited spectrograph
  • fiber injection
  • integral field unit
  • micro-lenslets
  • optical fibers
  • radial velocity
  • spectroscopy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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