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Dr. Franco Lisi

at INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri

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Proceedings Article | 21 November 2017 Open Access

A technology demonstrator for development of ultra-lightweight, large aperture, deployable telescope for space applications

Franco Lisi, Alessandro Bursi, Lisa Gambicorti, Alessandro Zuccaro Marchi, Francesca Simonetti, Piero Salinari, Massimiliano Olivier, Daniele Gallieni

Proceedings Volume 10566, 1056604 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2308186

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Mirrors, Space telescopes, Telescopes, Active optics, LIDAR, Control systems, Glasses, Atmospheric particles, Interfaces

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Proceedings Article | 21 November 2017 Open Access

An ultra-lightweight, large aperture, deployable telescope for advanced lidar applications

D. Ferruzzi, F. Simonetti, F. Lisi, P. Mazzinghi, V. Bratina, L. Gambicorti, A. Zuccaro Marchi, P. Salinari, M. Olivier, A. Bursi, J. Pereira do Carmo

Proceedings Volume 10567, 105670E (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2308098

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Space telescopes, Telescopes, Actuators, LIDAR, Wavefront sensors, Control systems, Wavefronts, Sensors, Tolerancing

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Proceedings Article | 20 November 2017 Open Access

Technological developments for ultra-lightweight, large aperture, deployable mirror for space telescopes

Francesco D'Amato, Daniele Gallieni, Roberto Biasi, Marco Molina, Fabrizio Duò, Nikolaus Ruder, Francesca Simonetti, Alessandro Zuccaro Marchi, Piero Salinari, Franco Lisi, Armando Riccardi, Lisa Gambicorti, Joao Pedro Pereira do Carmo

Proceedings Volume 10565, 105651X (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309213

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Mirrors, Electroluminescence, Space telescopes, Glasses, Manufacturing, Surface finishing, Optical testing, Astronomical imaging, Control systems

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Proceedings Article | 20 November 2017 Open Access

Last results of technological developments for ultra-lightweight, large aperture, deployable mirror for space telescopes

Lisa Gambicorti, Christian Vettore, Franco Lisi, Daniele Gallieni, Joao Pereira do Carmo, Francesco D'Amato, Fabrizio Duò, Alessio Guercia, Christian Patauner, Roberto Biasi, Armando Riccardi, Paolo Lazzarini, Matteo Tintori, Alessandro Zuccaro Marchi

Proceedings Volume 10564, 1056415 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309039

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Proceedings Article | 17 November 2017 Open Access

Development of large aperture telescope technology (LATT): test results on a demonstrator bread-board

R. Briguglio, F. Lisi, F. Duò, C. Vettore, D. Gallieni, M. Tintori, C. Patauner, F. D’Amato, João Pereira do Carmo, M. Xompero, A. Riccardi, P. Lazzarini, R. Biasi, M. Pucci

Proceedings Volume 10563, 105634F (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2304228

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Mirrors, Control systems, Astronomical imaging, Space telescopes, Glasses, Sensors, Aluminum, Optical testing, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 25 September 2017 Open Access

Toward large diffraction limited space telescopes with the Latt lightweight active primary

R. Briguglio, C. Del Vecchio, F. Lisi, D. Magrin, M. Xompero, C. Arcidiacono, A. Riccardi, E. Pinna

Proceedings Volume 10562, 1056234 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2296220

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Space telescopes, Adaptive optics, Astronomical imaging, Mirrors, Optics manufacturing, Control systems, Telescopes, Optical fabrication, Active optics

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Proceedings Article | 29 July 2016 Paper

Laboratory demonstration of a primary active mirror for space with the LATT: large aperture telescope technology

Franco Lisi, Armando Riccardi, Roberto Biasi, Christian Patauner, Daniele Gallieni, Paolo Lazzarini, Matteo Tintori, Francesco d'Amato, Mauro Pucci, Runa Briguglio, Marco Xompero, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Fabrizio Duò, Christian Vettore, Alessandro Zuccaro Marchi, Luca Maresi

Proceedings Volume 9904, 99046C (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231726

KEYWORDS: Space telescopes, Mirrors, Space mirrors, Prototyping, Actuators, Glasses, Telescopes, Electronics, Optical testing, Adaptive optics

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Proceedings Article | 29 July 2016 Paper

The LATT way towards large active primaries for space telescopes

Runa Briguglio, Marco Xompero, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Franco Lisi, Armando Riccardi, Roberto Biasi, Christian Patauner, Daniele Gallieni, Paolo Lazzarini, Matteo Tintori, Francesco d'Amato, Mauro Pucci, Fabrizio Duò, Christian Vettore, Alessandro Zuccaro Marchi

Proceedings Volume 9904, 99041B (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231712

KEYWORDS: Space telescopes, Mirrors, Telescopes, Prototyping, Deformable mirrors, Adaptive optics, Actuators, Active optics, Sensors, Space mirrors

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Proceedings Article | 27 July 2016 Paper

SHARK-NIR: from K-band to a key instrument, a status update

Jacopo Farinato, Andrea Baruffolo, Maria Bergomi, Luca Carbonaro, Alexis Carlotti, Mauro Centrone, Marco Dima, Simone Esposito, Emanuele Giallongo, Olivier Guyon, Daniele Vassallo, Valentina D'Orazi, Francesca Bacciotti, Angela Bongiorno, Fernando Pedichini, Enrico Pinna, Carlo Baffa, Laird Close, Marco De Pascale, Daniela Fantinel, Giancarlo Farisato, Wolfgang Gaessler, Davide Greggio, Philip Hinz, Franco Lisi, Demetrio Magrin, Luca Marafatto, Alfio Puglisi, Roberto Ragazzoni, Bernardo Salasnich, Marco Stangalini, Christophe Verinaud, Valentina Viotto, Elena Carolo, Lars Mohr, Manny Montoya

Proceedings Volume 9909, 990931 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233545

KEYWORDS: Adaptive optics, K band, Telescopes, Imaging spectroscopy, Coronagraphy, Cameras, Stars, Sensors, Planets, Mirrors

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SHARK-NIR channel is one of the two coronagraphic instruments proposed for the Large Binocular Telescope, in the framework of the call for second generation instruments, issued in 2014. Together with the SHARK-VIS channel, it will offer a few observing modes (direct imaging, coronagraphic imaging and coronagraphic low resolution spectroscopy) covering a wide wavelength domain, going from 0.5μm to 1.7μm.

Initially proposed as an instrument covering also the K-band, the current design foresees a camera working from Y to H bands, exploiting in this way the synergy with other LBT instruments such as LBTI, which is actually covering wavelengths greater than L' band, and it will be soon upgraded to work also in K band. SHARK-NIR has been undergoing the conceptual design review at the end of 2015 and it has been approved to proceed to the final design phase, receiving the green light for successive construction and installation at LBT.

The current design is significantly more flexible than the previous one, having an additional intermediate pupil plane that will allow the usage of coronagraphic techniques very efficient in term of contrast and vicinity to the star, increasing the instrument coronagraphic performance. The latter is necessary to properly exploit the search of giant exo-planets, which is the main science case and the driver for the technical choices of SHARK-NIR. We also emphasize that the LBT AO SOUL upgrade will further improve the AO performance, making possible to extend the exo-planet search to target fainter than normally achieved by other 8-m class telescopes, and opening in this way to other very interesting scientific scenarios, such as the characterization of AGN and Quasars (normally too faint to be observed) and increasing considerably the sample of disks and jets to be studied.

Finally, we emphasize that SHARK-NIR will offer XAO direct imaging capability on a FoV of about 15"x15", and a simple coronagraphic spectroscopic mode offering spectral resolution ranging from few hundreds to few thousands. This article presents the current instrument design, together with the milestones for its installation at LBT.

Proceedings Article | 6 August 2014 Paper

SHARK (System for coronagraphy with High order Adaptive optics from R to K band): a proposal for the LBT 2nd generation instrumentation

Jacopo Farinato, Fernando Pedichini, Enrico Pinna, Francesca Baciotti, Carlo Baffa, Luca Carbonaro, Mauro Centrone, Silvano Desidera, Marco Dima, Simone Esposito, Adriano Fontana, Emanuele Giallongo, Davide Greggio, Philip Hinz, Raffaele Gratton, Franco Lisi, Demetrio Magrin, Roberto Ragazzoni, Eleonora Sani, Marco Stangalini, Andrea Baruffolo, Maria Bergomi, Pietro Bruno, Enrico Cappellaro, Alexis Carlotti, Johanan Codona, Daniela Fantinel, Giancarlo Farisato, Wolfgang Gaessler, Juan Carlos Guerra, Olivier Guyon, Francesco Leone, Luca Marafatto, Matteo Munari, Isabella Pagano, Alfio Puglisi, Bernardo Salasnich, Salvo Scuderi, Vincenzo Testa, Christophe Verinaud, Valentina Viotto, Laird Close

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91477J (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056598

KEYWORDS: Coronagraphy, Adaptive optics, Near infrared, Planets, Stars, Telescopes, Sensors, Mirrors, Imaging spectroscopy, K band

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Proceedings Article | 8 October 2007 Paper

Deployable, lightweight, and large aperture spaceborne telescope for lidar-based earth observations

J Pereira, F. Lisi, P. Salinari, R. Biasi, M. Olivier, L. Gambicorti, A. Bursi, P. Mazzinghi, V. Bratina, D. Gallieni, F. Simonetti, A. Zuccaro Marchi, D. Ferruzzi

Proceedings Volume 6750, 67500X (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.737853

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Space telescopes, Telescopes, LIDAR, Actuators, Control systems, Wavefront sensors, Satellites, Tolerancing, Optics manufacturing

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Proceedings Article | 3 October 2007 Paper

Lightweight active controlled primary mirror technology demonstrator

F. Simonetti, L. Gambicorti, D. Gallieni, D. Ferruzzi, P. Salinari, P. Mazzinghi, M. Olivier, R. Biasi, F. Lisi, J. Pereira, A. Bursi, V. Bratina, A. Zuccaro Marchi

Proceedings Volume 6750, 67500Y (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.737839

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Mirrors, Space telescopes, Active optics, Control systems, Glasses, Telescopes, Sensors, LIDAR, Wavefront sensors

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Proceedings Article | 20 October 2004 Paper

AMBER integration and laboratory performances

Jan Behrend, Pierre Antonelli, Stephane Lagarde, Gerard Zins, Laurence Gluck, Eric Tatulli, Simone Busoni, Romain Petrov, Alain Delboulbe, Yves Bresson, Pierre Kern, Udo Beckmann, Etienne LeCoarer, Alain Roussel, Matteo Accardo, Fabien Malbet, Franco Lisi, Brahim Arezki, Yves Magnard, Florentin Millour, Carla Gil, Sylvie Robbe-Dubois, Karine Rousselet-Perraut, Gilles Duvert

Proceedings Volume 5491, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551284

KEYWORDS: Spectral resolution, K band, Polarizers, Visibility, Spatial filters, Calibration, Telescopes, Interferometry, Single mode fibers, Sensors

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Proceedings Article | 20 October 2004 Paper

The VLTI focal instrument Amber: results of the first phase of the alignment, integration, and verification in Paranal

Alain Roussel, Alain Delboulbe, Gerd Weigelt, Pierre Kern, Nicholas Haddad, Pedro Mardones, Nico Housen, Etienne LeCoarer, Karine Rousselet-Perraut, Franco Lisi, Matteo Accardo, Eric Tatulli, Florentin Millour, Carla Gil, Denis Mourard, Romain Petrov, Stephane Lagarde, Fredrik Rantakyro, Markus Schoeller, Gerard Zins, Matthias Heininger, Paolo Stefanini, Laurence Gluck, Fabien Malbet, Martin Vannier, Sylvie Robbe-Dubois, Andrea Richichi, Udo Beckmann, Gilles Duvert, Yves Bresson, Pierre Antonelli, Mario Kiekebusch, Florence Puech

Proceedings Volume 5491, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550323

KEYWORDS: Stellar interferometry, Astronomy, Optical instrument design, Telescopes, Stars, Visibility

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Proceedings Article | 15 October 2003 Paper

The cold spectrograph of AMBER, the infrared beam-combiner for the VLTI

Debora Ferruzzi, Elisabetta Giani, Sandro Gennari, Franco Lisi, Matteo Accardo, Simone Busoni, Paolo Stefanini

Proceedings Volume 5172, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.508376

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Sensors, Spectrographs, Beam splitters, Optical benches, Infrared radiation, Cryogenics, Aluminum, Liquids, Nitrogen

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Proceedings Article | 21 February 2003 Paper

Using the near-infrared VLTI instrument AMBER

Sylvie Robbe-Dubois, Fabien Malbet, Pierre Antonelli, Franco Lisi, Denis Mourard, Karine Rousselet-Perraut, Martin Vannier, Michel Dugue, Gilles Duvert, Udo Beckmann, Stephane Lagarde, Gerd Weigelt, Romain Petrov, Alain Chelli, Pascal Puget, Sandro Gennari, Etienne Lecoarer

Proceedings Volume 4838, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459113

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Visibility, Stars, Telescopes, Spectrographs, Sensors, Phase measurement, Spatial filters, Planets, Astatine

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Proceedings Article | 5 July 2000 Paper

AMBER: the near-infrared focal instrument for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

Gregoire Martinot-Lagarde, Karim Agabi, Djamel Mekarnia, Philippe Berio, Karine Perraut-Rousselet, M. Geng, Yves Rabbia, Stephane Lagarde, Gilles Duvert, Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Pascal Puget, Sandro Gennari, Andrea Richichi, John Michel LeContel, Frederic Cassaing, Markus Schoeller, Francois Reynaud, Thierry Forveille, Michel Sacchettini, Sylvie Robbe-Dubois, Jean-Louis Monin, Gerd Weigelt, Bruno Lopez, Romain Petrov, Yves Bresson, Etienne LeCoarer, Isabelle Tallon-Bosc, Carlo Baffa, David Mouillet, Danielle LeContel, Andre Glentzlin, Udo Beckmann, Daniel Kamm, Pierre Antonelli, Denis Mourard, E. Fossat, Eric Aristidi, Franco Lisi, Albrecht Dreiss, Gilbert Mars, Fabien Malbet, Christian Perrier-Bellet, Alain Chelli, Michel Dugue, Sylvestre Rebattu

Proceedings Volume 4006, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390256

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Visibility, Interferometry, Spectrographs, Adaptive optics, Sensors, Stars, Spatial filters, Interferometers, Optical fibers

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Proceedings Article | 5 July 2000 Paper

AMBER: optical design and expected performance

Fabien Malbet, Sylvie Robbe-Dubois, Karine Perraut-Rousselet, Stephane Lagarde, Romain Petrov, Yves Bresson, Sandro Gennari, Sylvestre Rebattu, Yves Rabbia, Pierre Antonelli, Francois Reynaud, Franco Lisi, Udo Beckmann, Gregoire Martinot-Lagarde

Proceedings Volume 4006, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390212

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Interferometry, Wavefronts, Calibration, Telescopes, Sensors, Spatial filters, Tolerancing, K band, Visibility

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 September 1995

TIRGO and its instrumentation

Carlo Baffa, Sandro Gennari, Leslie Hunt, Franco Lisi, Gianni Tofani, Leonardo Vanzi

OE, Vol. 34, Issue 09, (September 1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/12.205675

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Sensors, Mirrors, Infrared telescopes, Cameras, Infrared radiation, Astronomical telescopes, Infrared astronomy, Astronomy, Spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 6 June 1995 Paper

Optical design of the infrared camera for the Galileo Telescope (TNG)

Leonardo Vanzi, Franco Lisi, Sandro Gennari

Proceedings Volume 2475, (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.211259

KEYWORDS: Optical design, Cameras, Sensors, Telescopes, Imaging spectroscopy, Spectroscopy, Optical filters, Image filtering, Image resolution, Space telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 20 October 1993 Paper

ARNICA: the Arcetri Observatory NICMOS3 imaging camera

Franco Lisi, Carlo Baffa, Leslie Hunt

Proceedings Volume 1946, (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.158711

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Cameras, Telescopes, Detector arrays, Electronics, Observatories, Control systems, Astronomy, Infrared detectors, Lenses

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