Astronomical near-infrared echelle gratings

Kenneth H. Hinkle; Richard R. Joyce; Ming Liang

doi:10.1117/12.2054994

18 July 2014 Astronomical near-infrared echelle gratings

Kenneth H. Hinkle, Richard R. Joyce, Ming Liang

Proceedings Volume 9151, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation; 91514A (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054994
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

High-resolution near-infrared echelle spectrographs require coarse rulings in order to match the free spectral range to the detector size. Standard near-IR detector arrays typically are 2 K x 2 K or 4 K x 4 K. Detectors of this size combined with resolutions in the range 30000 to 100000 require grating groove spacings in the range 5 to 20 lines/mm. Moderately high blaze angles are desirable to reduce instrument size. Echelle gratings with these characteristics have potential wide application in both ambient temperature and cryogenic astronomical echelle spectrographs. We discuss optical designs for spectrographs employing immersed and reflective echelle gratings. The optical designs set constraints on grating characteristics. We report on market choices for obtaining these gratings and review our experiments with custom diamond turned rulings.

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Kenneth H. Hinkle, Richard R. Joyce, and Ming Liang "Astronomical near-infrared echelle gratings", Proc. SPIE 9151, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation, 91514A (18 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054994

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