The optical design of wide integral field infrared spectrograph

Richard C. Y. Chou; Dae-Sik Moon; Stephen S. Eikenberry

doi:10.1117/12.855976

20 July 2010 The optical design of wide integral field infrared spectrograph

Richard C. Y. Chou, Dae-Sik Moon, Stephen S. Eikenberry

Proceedings Volume 7735, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III; 77356S (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.855976
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We present the optical design of the Wide Integral Field Infrared Spectrograph (WIFIS) which provides an unprecedented combination of the integral field size and the spectral resolving power in the near-infrared wavebands. The integral field size and spectral resolving power of WIFIS are ~ 5× 12on a 10-m telescope (or equivalently 13× 30on a 4-m telescope) and ~ 5300, respectively. Therefore, the affordable etendue of WIFIS is larger than any other near-infrared integral field spectrographs while its spectral resolving power is comparable to the highest value provided by other spectrographs. WIFIS optical system comprises an Offner relay-based pre-slit unit, an image slicer for integral-field unit, a collimator, diffraction gratings, and a spectrograph camera. For the integral field unit, WIFIS uses the Florida Image Slicer for Infrared Cosmological and Astrophysics which is a set of 3 monolithic mirror arrays housing 22 image slicers. The collimator system consists of one off-axis parabola and two lenses, while WIFIS relies on 3 different gratings to cover the entire JHK bands. The spectrograph camera uses 6 lenses of CaF2 and SFTM16, delivering the f/3 final beam onto a Hawaii II RG 2K × 2K detector array. WIFIS will be an ideal instrument to study the dynamics and chemistry of extended objects.

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Richard C. Y. Chou, Dae-Sik Moon, and Stephen S. Eikenberry "The optical design of wide integral field infrared spectrograph", Proc. SPIE 7735, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III, 77356S (20 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.855976

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