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Development of integrated mode reformatting components for diffraction-limited spectroscopy (1510.02034v1)
Published 7 Oct 2015 in physics.optics
Abstract: We present the results of our work on developing fully integrated devices (photonic dicers) for reformatting multimode light to a diffraction limited pseudo-slit. These devices can be used to couple a seeing-limited telescope point-spread-function to a spectrograph operating at the diffraction limit, thus enabling compact, high-resolution spectrographs that are free of modal-noise.