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Investigations on assembly and coverage for modular focal planes of multiplexed telescopes

Rombach, Maxime  
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Xu, Xiangyu  
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Araujo, Ricardo
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Bryant, Julia J.
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Motohara, Kentaro
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2024
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
10 Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy

Multiplexed surveys have the ambition to grow larger for the next generation of focal plane instruments.Future projects such as Spec-S5, MUST, and WST have an ever-growing need for multi-object spectroscopy (13,000-20,000 simultaneous objects) which demands further investigations of novel focal plane instrumentation.In this paper, we present a rigorous study of focal plane coverage optimization and assembly of triangular modules of alpha-beta fiber positioners with a 6.2 mm pitch.The main focus here is to examine different module arrangements namely, framed, semi-frameless, and fully-frameless assemblies.Framed and semi-frameless describe here the usage of a manufactured focal plate to hold the modules together and provide the correct focus and tilt to the fibers.Work on automatically generating such focal plates for project adaptability and ease of manufacturing will also be presented.On the other hand, the frameless approach proposes a connection method freed from the need of a focal plate.The following paper will also present their capabilities to meet the requirements for focal plane assembly such as focus, tilt and coverage.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1117/12.3018315
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85196324149

Author(s)
Rombach, Maxime  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Xu, Xiangyu  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Araujo, Ricardo

Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève - hepia

Thurneysen, Markus

Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève - hepia

Caseiro, Stefane

Micro Precision Systems (MPS)

Magnenat, Corentin

Micro Precision Systems (MPS)

Silber, Joseph

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Galal, Malak  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Schlegel, David

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Kneib, Jean Paul  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Editors
Bryant, Julia J.
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Motohara, Kentaro
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Vernet, Joel R.
Date Issued

2024

Publisher

SPIE

Published in
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISBN of the book

9781510675155

Book part number

13096

Article Number

130969V

Subjects

assembly

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coverage

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Focal plane

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focus

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modular

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raft

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tilt

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL units
LASTRO  
TNE  
GALSPEC  
Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
10 Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy

Yokohama, Japan

2024-06-16 - 2024-06-21

FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Innosuisse - Swiss Innovation Agency

101.014 IP-ENG

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January 26, 2025
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