Frida integral field unit opto-mechanical design

Salvador Cuevas; Stephen S. Eikenberry; Vicente Bringas; Adi Corrales; Carlos Espejo; Diana Lucero; Alberto Rodriguez; Beatriz Sánchez; Jorge Uribe

doi:10.1117/12.925504

13 September 2012 Frida integral field unit opto-mechanical design

Salvador Cuevas, Stephen S. Eikenberry, Vicente Bringas, Adi Corrales, Carlos Espejo, Diana Lucero, Alberto Rodriguez, Beatriz Sánchez, Jorge Uribe

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Proceedings Volume 8450, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II; 84504I (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925504
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

FRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for the Adaptive optics system of the Gran Telescopio Canarias) has been designed as a cryogenic and diffraction limited instrument that will offer broad and narrow band imaging and integral field spectroscopy (IFS). Both, the imaging mode and IFS observing modes will use the same Teledyne 2Kx2K detector. This instrument will be installed at Nasmyth B station, behind the GTC Adaptive Optics system. FRIDA will provide the IFS mode using a 30 slices Integral Field Unit (IFU). This IFU design is based on University of Florida FISICA where the mirror block arrays are diamond turned on monolithic metal blocks. FRIDA IFU is conformed mainly by 3 mirror blocks with 30 spherical mirrors each. It also has a Schwarzschild relay based on two off axis spherical mirrors and an afocal system of two parabolic off axis mirrors. Including two insertion mirrors the IFU holds 96 metal mirrors. Each block or individual mirror is attached on its own mechanical mounting. In order to study beam interferences with mechanical parts, ghosts and scattered light, an iterative optical-mechanical modeling was developed. In this work this iterative modeling is described including pictures showing actual ray tracing on the opto-mechanical components.

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Salvador Cuevas, Stephen S. Eikenberry, Vicente Bringas, Adi Corrales, Carlos Espejo, Diana Lucero, Alberto Rodriguez, Beatriz Sánchez, and Jorge Uribe "Frida integral field unit opto-mechanical design", Proc. SPIE 8450, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II, 84504I (13 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925504

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