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Echidna Mark II: one giant leap for 'tilting spine' fibre positioning technology

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The Australian Astronomical Observatory's 'tilting spine' fibre positioning technology has been redeveloped to provide superior performance in a smaller package. The new design offers demonstrated closed-loop positioning errors of <2.8 μm RMS in only five moves (~10 s excluding metrology overheads) and an improved capacity for open-loop tracking during observations. Tilt-induced throughput losses have been halved by lengthening spines while maintaining excellent accuracy. New low-voltage m...

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doi:10.1117/12.2231366

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Astrophysics
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
St Cross College
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Publisher:
Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
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Proceedings of SPIE More from this journal
Volume:
9912
Article number:
991221
Publication date:
2016-07-22
Acceptance date:
2016-07-20
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1996-756X
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pubs:637004
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637004
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2016-08-02

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