Optical design of a highly segmented wide field spectrograph

Demetrio Magrin; Roberto Ragazzoni; Giorgia Gentile; Marco Dima; Jacopo Farinato

doi:10.1117/12.836988

21 August 2009 Optical design of a highly segmented wide field spectrograph

Demetrio Magrin, Roberto Ragazzoni, Giorgia Gentile, Marco Dima, Jacopo Farinato

Proceedings Volume 7428, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering X; 74280U (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836988
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2009, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A lot of scientific interest around both seeing limited wide field imaging and wide field spectroscopy has been shown in the recent past. Technological difficulties have indeed been identified when proposing classical prime focus corrector for 8 meters class telescopes with Field of View bigger than one degree, because of the huge opto-mechanics and of the very large arrays of detectors required. A new concept, the Smart Fast Camera, has been recently proposed: the idea behind relays on splitting the huge Field of View in smaller portions, each of them re-imaging onto a reasonable size detector a part of the scientific Field of View. In this way, one could think to build a modular instrument, with most of the components identical for each module, with the exception of the field corrector, which is of course radial dependent. In this paper, a further development of this concept, allowing for spectroscopy, is presented, applied to an existing 8 meter class telescope, the Large Binocular Telescope. A preliminary study is traced out, with the aim to find a feasible optical design for such an instrument.

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Demetrio Magrin, Roberto Ragazzoni, Giorgia Gentile, Marco Dima, and Jacopo Farinato "Optical design of a highly segmented wide field spectrograph", Proc. SPIE 7428, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering X, 74280U (21 August 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836988

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