@inproceedings{fcd9874315c94bb2b297521e491a3f5b,
title = "The Large Fiber Array Spectroscopic Telescope: Fiber Feed and Spectrometer Conceptual Design",
abstract = "The Large Fiber Array Spectroscopic Telescope, LFAST, will use optical fibers to combine light from thousands of small telescopes at centrally located high-resolution spectrometers. LFAST aims to use mass replication of small, self-contained telescope systems to provide ELT sized collecting area and spectroscopic capabilities at a drastically reduced price. However, fundamental constraints such as {\'e}tendue, fiber modal noise, and focal-plane sampling that affect the size and complexity of spectrometers for single telescope ELTs also impact LFAST. We are carrying out a three year study to tackle these challenges. In this paper, we describe the conceptual designs for the fiber feed assemblies that carry light from the individual telescopes to a centralized location, and the high-resolution spectrometer that accepts this light.",
keywords = "LFAST, fiber-feeds, spectrometers, telescopes",
author = "Bender, \{Chad F.\} and Angel, \{J. Roger\} and Joel Berkson and Peter Gray and Samuel Halverson and Hyukmo Kang and Daewook Kim and Andrew Monson and Oh, \{Chang Jin\} and Matthew Rademacher and Christian Schwab and Andrew Young and Dennis Zaritsky",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 SPIE.; Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX 2022 ; Conference date: 17-07-2022 Through 22-07-2022",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1117/12.2628710",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Evans, \{Christopher J.\} and Bryant, \{Julia J.\} and Kentaro Motohara",
booktitle = "Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX",
}