Mr. Nicholas F. Staszak Profile

Nicholas F. Staszak

at Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie Univ

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Publications (23)

Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

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PRAXIS: a near infrared spectrograph optimised for OH suppression

S. Ellis, S. Bauer, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Case, R. Content, T. Fechner, D. Giannone, R. Haynes, E. Hernandez, A. Horton, U. Klauser, J. Lawrence, S. Leon-Saval, E. Lindley, H.-G. Löhmannsröben, S.-S. Min, N. Pai, M. Roth, K. Shortridge, Nicholas Staszak, Julia Tims, Pascal Xavier, Ross Zhelem

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99084A (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232115

KEYWORDS: Fiber Bragg gratings, Spectrographs, Sensors, Near infrared, Astronomy, Fiber Bragg gratings, Near infrared, Optical design, Telescopes, Near infrared spectroscopy, Metrology, Spectroscopes

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

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The MANIFEST prototyping design study

Jonathan Lawrence, Sagi Ben-Ami, David Brown, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Steve Chapman, Vladimir Churilov, Matthew Colless, Robert Content, Darren Depoy, Ian Evans, Tony Farrell, Michael Goodwin, George Jacoby, Urs Klauser, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria P. Lorente, Slavko Mali, Jennifer Marshall, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Naveen Pai, Travis Prochaska, Will Saunders, Luke Schmidt, Keith Shortridge, Nicholas Staszak, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Julia Tims, Minh Vuong, Lewis Waller, Ross Zhelem

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99089O (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232412

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Prototyping, Spectrographs, Optical instrument design, Optical instrument design, Cameras, Interfaces, Connectors, Metrology, Glasses, Galactic astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

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The AST3-NIR camera for the Kunlun Infrared Sky Survey

Jon Lawrence, Michael Ashley, Michael Burton, Xiangqun Cui, Vladimir Churilov, Robert Content, Peter Gillingham, Karl Glazebrook, Bozhong Gu, Michael Ireland, Xiang Jiang, Haiping Lu, Anna Moore, Jeremy Mould, Nicholas Staszak, Julia Tims, Peter Tuthill, Lifan Wang, Xiangyan Yuan, Kaiyuan Zhang, Ross Zhelem, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 9908, 990851 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233317

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Infrared radiation, Astronomy, Infrared astronomy, Cameras, Mirrors, Atmospheric modeling, Sensors, Optical filters, Optical instrument design

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

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ULTIMATE: a deployable multiple integral field unit for Subaru

S. Ellis, Ross Zhelem, David Brown, Nicholas Staszak, Chris Lidman, David Nataf, Andrew Casey, Pascal Xavier, Andrew Sheinis, Peter Gillingham, Julia Tims, Jon Lawrence, Julia Bryant, Rob Sharp

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99081Q (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232107

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Space telescopes, Telescopes, Galactic astronomy, Microlens array, K band, Sensors, ZBLAN, Mirrors, Metrology

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Proceedings Article | 4 August 2016 Paper

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Hector: a new massively multiplexed IFU instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Julia Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence, Scott Croom, David Brown, Sudharshan Venkatesan, Peter Gillingham, Ross Zhelem, Robert Content, Will Saunders, Nicholas Staszak, Jesse van de Sande, Warrick Couch, Sergio Leon-Saval, Julia Tims, Richard McDermid, Adam Schaefer

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99081F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2230740

KEYWORDS: Galactic astronomy, Spectrographs, Telescopes, Stars, Kinematics, Iterated function systems, Cameras, Glasses, Mirrors, Aspheric lenses

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Proceedings Article | 22 July 2016 Paper

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TAIPAN instrument fibre positioner and Starbug robots: engineering overview

Nicholas Staszak, Jon Lawrence, David Brown, Rebecca Brown, Ross Zhelem, Michael Goodwin, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria P. Lorente, Vijay Nichani, Lew Waller, Scott Case, Robert Content, Andrew Hopkins, Urs Klauser, Naveen Pai, Rolf Mueller, Slavko Mali, Minh Vuong

Proceedings Volume 9912, 99121W (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233583

KEYWORDS: Metrology, Telescopes, Glasses, Connectors, Cameras, Control systems, Space telescopes, Fiber science, Electronics, Coating

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Proceedings Article | 22 July 2016 Paper

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TAIPAN fibre feed and spectrograph: engineering overview

Nicholas Staszak, Jon Lawrence, Ross Zhelem, Robert Content, Vladimir Churilov, Scott Case, Rebecca Brown, Andrew Hopkins, Kyler Kuehn, Naveen Pai, Urs Klauser, Vijay Nichani, Lew Waller

Proceedings Volume 9912, 991223 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233796

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Collimators, Telescopes, Aspheric lenses, Cameras, Sensors, Neodymium, Galactic astronomy, Connectors, Ions

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SPIE Journal Paper | 10 August 2015 Open Access

Open Access

First light results from the High Efficiency and Resolution Multi-Element Spectrograph at the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Andrew Sheinis, Borja Anguiano Jimenez, Martin Asplund, Carlos Bacigalupo, Samuel Barden, Michael Birchall, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jurek Brzeski, Russell Cannon, Daniela Carollo, Scott Case, Andrew Casey, Vladimir Churilov, Warrick Couch, Robert Dean, Gayandhi De Silva, Valentina D’Orazi, Ly Duong, Tony Farrell, Kristin Fiegert, Kenneth Freeman, Gabriella Frost, Luke Gers, Michael Goodwin, Doug Gray, Andrew Green, Ron Heald, Jeroen Heijmans, Michael Ireland, Damien Jones, Prajwal Kafle, Stefan Keller, Urs Klauser, Yuriy Kondrat, Janez Kos, Jon Lawrence, Steve Lee, Slavko Mali, Sarah Martell, Darren Mathews, Don Mayfield, Stan Miziarski, Rolf Muller, Naveen Pai, Robert Patterson, Ed Penny, David Orr, Katharine Schlesinger, Sanjib Sharma, Keith Shortridge, Jeffrey Simpson, Scott Smedley, Greg Smith, Darren Stafford, Nicholas Staszak, Minh Vuong, Lewis Waller, Elizabeth Wylie de Boer, Pascal Xavier, Jessica Zheng, Ross Zhelem, Daniel Zucker, Tomaz Zwitter

JATIS, Vol. 1, Issue 03, 035002, (August 2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.1.3.035002

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Sensors, Mirrors, Cameras, Collimators, Telescopes, Multi-element lenses, Stars, Control systems, Charge-coupled devices

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Proceedings Article | 7 August 2014 Paper

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Starbug fibre positioning robots: performance and reliability enhancements

David Brown, Scott Case, James Gilbert, Michael Goodwin, Daniel Jacobs, Kyler Kuehn, Jon Lawrence, Nuria P. F. Lorente, Vijay Nichani, Will Saunders, Nick Staszac, Julia Tims

Proceedings Volume 9151, 91511A (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055594

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Connectors, Metrology, Glasses, Ceramics, Electrodes, Space telescopes, Reliability, Prototyping, Optical fibers

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Proceedings Article | 28 July 2014 Paper

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The deterministic optical alignment of the HERMES spectrograph

Luke Gers, Nicholas Staszak

Proceedings Volume 9151, 915113 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055574

KEYWORDS: Optical alignment, Telescopes, Mirrors, Spectrographs, Cameras, Prisms, Collimators, Space telescopes, Optical components, Channel projecting optics

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Proceedings Article | 28 July 2014 Paper

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PRAXIS: low thermal emission high efficiency OH suppressed fibre spectrograph

Robert Content, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Simon Ellis, Luke Gers, Roger Haynes, Anthony Horton, Jon Lawrence, Sergio Leon-Saval, Emma Lindley, Seong-Sik Min, Keith Shortridge, Nick Staszak, Christopher Trinh, Pascal Xavier, Ross Zhelem

Proceedings Volume 9151, 91514W (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055597

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Fiber Bragg gratings, Sensors, Microlens, Multimode fibers, Telescopes, Cameras, Absorption, Glasses, Optical design

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PRAXIS is a second generation instrument that follows on from GNOSIS, which was the first instrument using fibre Bragg gratings for OH suppression to be deployed on a telescope. The Bragg gratings reflect the NIR OH lines while being transparent to the light between the lines. This gives in principle a much higher signal-noise ratio at low resolution spectroscopy but also at higher resolutions by removing the scattered wings of the OH lines. The specifications call for high throughput and very low thermal and detector noise so that PRAXIS will remain sky noise limited even with the low sky background levels remaining after OH suppression. The optical and mechanical designs are presented. The optical train starts with fore-optics that image the telescope focal plane on an IFU which has 19 hexagonal microlenses each feeding a multi-mode fibre. Seven of these fibres are attached to a fibre Bragg grating OH suppression system while the others are reference/acquisition fibres. The light from each of the seven OH suppression fibres is then split by a photonic lantern into many single mode fibres where the Bragg gratings are imprinted. Another lantern recombines the light from the single mode fibres into a multi-mode fibre. A trade-off was made in the design of the IFU between field of view and transmission to maximize the signal-noise ratio for observations of faint, compact objects under typical seeing. GNOSIS used the pre-existing IRIS2 spectrograph while PRAXIS will use a new spectrograph specifically designed for the fibre Bragg grating OH suppression and optimised for 1.47 μm to 1.7 μm (it can also be used in the 1.09 μm to 1.26 μm band by changing the grating and refocussing). This results in a significantly higher transmission due to high efficiency coatings, a VPH grating at low incident angle and optimized for our small bandwidth, and low absorption glasses. The detector noise will also be lower thanks to the use of a current generation HAWAII-2RG detector. Throughout the PRAXIS design, from the fore-optics to the detector enclosure, special care was taken at every step along the optical path to reduce thermal emission or stop it leaking into the system. The spectrograph design itself was particularly challenging in this aspect because practical constraints required that the detector and the spectrograph enclosures be physically separate with air at ambient temperature between them. At present, the instrument uses the GNOSIS fibre Bragg grating OH suppression unit. We intend to soon use a new OH suppression unit based on multicore fibre Bragg gratings which will allow an increased field of view per fibre. Theoretical calculations show that the gain in interline sky background signal-noise ratio over GNOSIS may very well be as high as 9 with the GNOSIS OH suppression unit and 17 with the multicore fibre OH suppression unit.

Proceedings Article | 28 July 2014 Paper

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The MANIFEST fibre positioning system for the Giant Magellan Telescope

Jon Lawrence, David Brown, Jurek Brzeski, Scott Case, Matthew Colless, Tony Farrell, Luke Gers, James Gilbert, Michael Goodwin, George Jacoby, Andrew Hopkins, Michael Ireland, Kyler Kuehn, Nuria P. Lorente, Stan Miziarski, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Azizi Rakman, Samuel Richards, Will Saunders, Nick Staszak, Julia Tims, Minh Vuong, Lew Waller

Proceedings Volume 9147, 914794 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055742

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Telescopes, Prototyping, Glasses, Metrology, Connectors, Optical fabrication, Coating, Astronomical telescopes, Optical fibers

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Proceedings Article | 24 July 2014 Paper

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Towards a spectroscopic survey of one hundred thousand spatially resolved galaxies with Hector

Jon Lawrence, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, David Brown, Julia Bryant, Gerald Cecil, Robert Content, Scott Croom, Luke Gers, Peter Gillingham, Samuel Richards, Will Saunders, Nick Staszak

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91476Y (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055734

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Galactic astronomy, Sensors, Optical design, Cameras, Spherical lenses, Robots, Telescopes, Space telescopes, Imaging systems

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Proceedings Article | 8 July 2014 Paper

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First light results from the Hermes spectrograph at the AAT

Andrew Sheinis, Sam Barden, Michael Birchall, Daniela Carollo, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jurek Brzeski, Scott Case, Russell Cannon, Vladimir Churilov, Warrick Couch, Robert Dean, Gayandhi De Silva, Valentina D'Orazi, Tony Farrell, Kristin Fiegert, Kenneth Freeman, Gabriella Frost, Luke Gers, Michael Goodwin, Doug Gray, Ron Heald, Jeroen Heijmans, Damien Jones, Stephan Keller, Urs Klauser, Yuriy Kondrat, Jon Lawrence, Steve Lee, Slavko Mali, Sarah Martell, Darren Mathews, Don Mayfield, Stan Miziarski, Rolf Muller, Naveen Pai, Robert Patterson, Ed Penny, David Orr, Keith Shortridge, Jeffrey Simpson, Scott Smedley, Greg Smith, Darren Stafford, Nicholas Staszak, Minh Vuong, Lewis Waller, Elizabeth Wylie de Boer, Pascal Xavier, Jessica Zheng, Ross Zhelem, Daniel Zucker

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91470Y (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055595

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Spectrographs, Cameras, Control systems, Collimators, Mirrors, Electronics, Charge-coupled devices, Telescopes, Stars

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Proceedings Article | 8 July 2014 Paper

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KOALA, a wide-field 1000 element integral-field unit for the Anglo-Australian Telescope: assembly and commissioning

Ross Zhelem, Jurek Brzeski, Scott Case, Vladimir Churilov, Simon Ellis, Tony Farrell, Andrew Green, Anthony Heng, Anthony Horton, Michael Ireland, Damien Jones, Urs Klauser, Jon Lawrence, Stan Miziarski, David Orr, Naveen Pai, Nick Staszak, Julia Tims, Minh Vuong, Lew Waller, Pascal Xavier

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91473K (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055588

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Microlens array, Telescopes, Image segmentation, Mirrors, Microlens, Lamps, Imaging arrays, Optical fibers, Coating

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Proceedings Article | 8 July 2014 Paper

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TAIPAN: optical spectroscopy with StarBugs

Kyler Kuehn, Jon Lawrence, David Brown, Scott Case, Matthew Colless, Robert Content, Luke Gers, James Gilbert, Michael Goodwin, Andrew Hopkins, Michael Ireland, Nuria Lorente, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Azizi Rakman, Samuel Richards, Will Saunders, Nick Staszak, Julia Tims, Lewis Waller

Proceedings Volume 9147, 914710 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055677

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Galactic astronomy, Stars, Astronomy, Prototyping, Control systems, Metrology, Optical spectroscopy, Spectroscopes, Astronomical imaging

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Proceedings Article | 5 October 2012 Paper

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MOHAWK: a 4000-fiber positioner for DESpec

Will Saunders, Greg Smith, James Gilbert, Rolf Muller, Michael Goodwin, Nick Staszak, Jurek Brzeski, Stan Miziarski, Matthew Colless

Proceedings Volume 8446, 84464W (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925724

KEYWORDS: Spine, Actuators, Optical fibers, Telescopes, Spectrographs, Prototyping, Connectors, Collimators, Metrology, Cameras

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Proceedings Article | 5 October 2012 Paper

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Integrating the HERMES spectrograph for the AAT

Jeroen Heijmans, Martin Asplund, Sam Barden, Michael Birchall, Daniela Carollo, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jurek Brzeski, Scott Case, Vladimir Churilov, Matthew Colless, Robert Dean, Gayandhi De Silva, Tony Farrell, Kristin Fiegert, Kenneth Freeman, Luke Gers, Michael Goodwin, Doug Gray, Ron Heald, Anthony Heng, Damien Jones, Chiaki Kobayashi, Urs Klauser, Yuriy Kondrat, Jon Lawrence, Steve Lee, Darren Mathews, Don Mayfield, Stan Miziarski, Guy Monnet, Rolf Muller, Naveen Pai, Robert Patterson, Ed Penny, David Orr, Andrew Sheinis, Keith Shortridge, Scott Smedley, Greg Smith, Darren Stafford, Nicholas Staszak, Minh Vuong, Lewis Waller, Denis Whittard, Elisabeth Wylie de Boer, Pascal Xavier, Jessica Zheng, Ross Zhelem, Daniel Zucker

Proceedings Volume 8446, 84460W (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925806

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Spectrographs, Stars, Control systems, Device simulation, Cameras, Charge-coupled devices, Electronics, Telescopes, Collimators

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

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KOALA: a wide-field 1000 element integral-field unit for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

S. Ellis, M. Ireland, J. Lawrence, J. Tims, N. Staszak, J. Brzeski, Q. Parker, R. Sharp, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Case, M. Colless, S. Croom, W. Couch, O. De Marco, K. Glazebrook, W. Saunders, R. Webster, D. Zucker

Proceedings Volume 8446, 84460V (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925812

KEYWORDS: Radon, Telescopes, Astronomy, Spectrographs, Staring arrays, Microlens array, Galactic astronomy, Physics, Chemical elements, Microlens

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

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Hermes: the engineering challenges

Jurek Brzeski, Luke Gers, Greg Smith, Nicholas Staszak

Proceedings Volume 8446, 84464N (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924635

KEYWORDS: Optical fibers, Relays, Spectrographs, Optics manufacturing, Tolerancing, Sensors, Collimators, Optical alignment, Optical design, Interfaces

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

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The AAO's Gemini High-Resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) concept

Michael Ireland, Stuart Barnes, David Cochrane, Matthew Colless, Peter Connor, Anthony Horton, Steve Gibson, Jon Lawrence, Sarah Martell, Peter McGregor, Tom Nicolle, Kathryn Nield, David Orr, J. Robertson, Stuart Ryder, Andrew Sheinis, Greg Smith, Nick Staszak, Julia Tims, Pascal Xavier, Peter Young, Jessica Zheng

Proceedings Volume 8446, 844629 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925746

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Gemini Observatory, Microlens, Cameras, Spectral resolution, Astronomy, Observatories, Ultraviolet radiation, Telescopes, Point spread functions

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2012 Paper

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CYCLOPS2: the fibre image slicer upgrade for the UCLES high resolution spectrograph

Anthony Horton, C. Tinney, Scott Case, Tony Farrell, Luke Gers, Damien Jones, Jon Lawrence, Stan Miziarski, Nick Staszak, David Orr, Minh Vuong, Lew Waller, Ross Zhelem

Proceedings Volume 8446, 84463A (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924945

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Calibration, Stars, Spectral resolution, Telescopes, Lamps, Exoplanets, Planets, Cameras, Interfaces

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Proceedings Article | 13 September 2012 Paper

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Concepts for multi-IFU robotic positioning systems

Stan Miziarski, Jurek Brzeski, Joss Bland Hawthorn, James Gilbert, Michael Goodwin, Jeroen Heijmans, Anthony Horton, Jon Lawrence, Will Saunders, Greg Smith, Nicholas Staszak

Proceedings Volume 8450, 845018 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925100

KEYWORDS: Robots, Magnetism, Actuators, Prisms, Mirrors, Prototyping, Robotics, Robotic systems, Tolerancing, Glasses

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