Original image slicer designed for integral field spectroscopy with the near-infrared spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope

Sebastien Vives; Eric Prieto

doi:10.1117/1.2355515

1 September 2006 Original image slicer designed for integral field spectroscopy with the near-infrared spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope

Sebastien Vives, Eric Prieto

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 45, Issue 9, 093001 (September 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2355515

Abstract

Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) provides a spectrum simultaneously for each spatial sample of an extended 2-D field. It consists of an integral field unit (IFU), which slices and rearranges the initial field along the entrance slit of a spectrograph. We present an original design of IFU based on the advanced image slicer concept. To reduce optical aberrations, pupil and slit mirrors are disposed in a fan-shaped configuration, which means that angles between incident and reflected beams on each element are minimized. The fan-shaped image slicer improves image quality in terms of wavefront error by a factor of 2 compared with a classical image slicer, and furthermore, it guaranties a negligible level of differential aberration in the field. As an example, we present the design LAM used for its proposal at the near-infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec/IFU) invitation of tender for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

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Sebastien Vives and Eric Prieto "Original image slicer designed for integral field spectroscopy with the near-infrared spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope," Optical Engineering 45(9), 093001 (1 September 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2355515

Published: 1 September 2006

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