Facility calibration unit of Hobby Eberly Telescope wide field upgrade

Hanshin Lee; Gary J. Hill; Brian L. Vattiat; Michael P. Smith; Marco Haeuser

doi:10.1117/12.926736

17 September 2012 Facility calibration unit of Hobby Eberly Telescope wide field upgrade

Hanshin Lee, Gary J. Hill, Brian L. Vattiat, Michael P. Smith, Marco Haeuser

Proceedings Volume 8444, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IV; 84444J (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926736
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) Wide-Field Upgrade (WFU) will be equipped with new Facility Calibration Unit (FCU). The FCU is in support of VIRUS and the facility instruments and consists of the head and source box. The FCU head, connected to the source box through two liquid light guides, is attached to the bottom of the WFU Wide-Field Corrector (WFC) and can be deployed into the beam to inject calibration light through the WFC whenever calibration is needed. A set of Fresnel lenses is used in the FCU head to mimic the caustics of M1 as much as possible to re-produce the telescope’s focal plane illumination pattern. Various imaging/non-imaging optical components (e.g. Compound Parabolic Concentrators, cone reflectors, condenser lenses) are used for efficient coupling between different types of calibration lamps and light guides, covering wavelengths from 350nm to 1800nm. In addition, we developed an efficient and tunable Light-Emitting Diode (LED) based source and coupler for UV and Visible spectral flat field calibration. This paper presents the designs, prototypes, and as-built components / subsystems of the FCU.

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Hanshin Lee, Gary J. Hill, Brian L. Vattiat, Michael P. Smith, and Marco Haeuser "Facility calibration unit of Hobby Eberly Telescope wide field upgrade", Proc. SPIE 8444, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IV, 84444J (17 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926736

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