From Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020
A fiber IFU with 8064 fibers is designed and manufactured for the Fiber Arrayed Solar Optical Telescope. 8064 fibers are divided to two 2D arrays for different polarization states and 12 pseudo fiber slits for 12 spectrometers. There are many relative techniques have been developed during this process. The hexagon microlens array fits the 100% filling factor. The quartz micropores plate guarantee the positioning accuracy among different temperatures. The 18m fiber cables with special designs transfer the signal with low focal ratio degradation. The quartz V-grooves are used to control the positions of the fibers to form those pseudo slits. Besides, a six-dimensional alignment system and a fast alignment and detection system are built to align the microlens array with micropores and measure the focal ratio, transmission efficiency and alignment accuracy of the IFU, respectively.
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Weimin Sun, Xudong Chen, Tao Geng, Qi Yan, Xiren Jin, Jiabin Wang, Hang Jiang, Anzhi Wang, Yunxiang Yan, Shengjia Wang, Xingyu Bai, Longzhen Chen, Yinghua Zhang, Qingzhu Zhu, Shijie Liu, Yuxiang Li, and Pengfei Wang, "An integrated field unit with thousands of optical fibers for a solar telescope," Proc. SPIE 11451, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV, 1145164 (Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation: December 17, 2020; Published: 13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562291.