An 8-telescope laboratory interferometric simulator for VSI-Vitruv

L. Jocou; M. Benisty; J. P. Berger; K. Perraut; P. Kern

doi:10.1117/12.673073

28 June 2006 An 8-telescope laboratory interferometric simulator for VSI-Vitruv

L. Jocou, M. Benisty, J. P. Berger, K. Perraut, P. Kern

Proceedings Volume 6268, Advances in Stellar Interferometry; 626839 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.673073
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

This paper presents the experimental laboratory interferometer simulator implemented to prepare the VSI-Vitruv instrument. In its final phase, VSI-Vitruv will recombine up to 6 beams of the VLTI thanks to a set of planar Integrated Optics (IO) combiners. This simulator will be used to characterize the IO combiner concepts developed for VSI-Vitruv and will allow to optimize the system up to the data reduction and image reconstruction issues. The simulator consists of three sub-systems: a binary object simulator, a VLTI simulator presenting an array of 8 telescopes, the IO beam combiner and a low resolution spectro-imager. After a detailled presentation of the bench, we will present the first validation tests and the performances of the experiment. The characterizations of the combiners developped for VSI-Vitruv are presented in the accompanying paper (Benisty et al.,6268-89).

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L. Jocou, M. Benisty, J. P. Berger, K. Perraut, and P. Kern "An 8-telescope laboratory interferometric simulator for VSI-Vitruv", Proc. SPIE 6268, Advances in Stellar Interferometry, 626839 (28 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.673073

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