Abstract
Astrophotonics is the application of photonic principles to astronomical instrumentation, in order to reduce cost, size, weight and complexity while increasing performance. In astrophotonics the photonic lantern (PL) [1-4] is a remarkable photonic device which efficiently couples light between a multimode (MM) optical fibre and a set of degenerate single modes (SMs) which are guided by the cores of either individual SM fibres [1-3] or a multicore optical fibre [4]. If the SMs produced by the PL are arranged into a linear array [5], the PL facilitates the efficient collection of light from a telescope using a MM fibre and the low-loss reformatting of this light into a near diffraction limited input (in one axis) for a spectrometer [6].
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference |
Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ |
Publisher | IEEE |
Number of pages | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4577-0532-8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4577-0533-5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Event | European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2011 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2011 - Munich, Germany Duration: 22 May 2011 → 26 May 2011 |
Conference
Conference | European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2011 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2011 |
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Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Munich |
Period | 22/05/11 → 26/05/11 |