Optical design of the SuMIRe/PFS spectrograph

Sandrine Pascal; Sébastien Vives; Robert Barkhouser; James E. Gunn

doi:10.1117/12.2055738

8 July 2014 Optical design of the SuMIRe/PFS spectrograph

Sandrine Pascal, Sébastien Vives, Robert Barkhouser, James E. Gunn

Proceedings Volume 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V; 914747 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055738
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), developed for the 8-m class SUBARU telescope, will consist of four identical spectrographs, each receiving 600 fibers from a 2394 fiber robotic positioner at the telescope prime focus. Each spectrograph includes three spectral channels to cover the wavelength range [0.38-1.26] um with a resolving power ranging between 2000 and 4000. A medium resolution mode is also implemented to reach a resolving power of 5000 at 0.8 um. Each spectrograph is made of 4 optical units: the entrance unit which produces three corrected collimated beams and three camera units (one per spectral channel: "blue, "red", and “NIR”). The beam is split by using two large dichroics; and in each arm, the light is dispersed by large VPH gratings (about 280x280mm). The proposed optical design was optimized to achieve the requested image quality while simplifying the manufacturing of the whole optical system. The camera design consists in an innovative Schmidt camera observing a large field-of-view (10 degrees) with a very fast beam (F/1.09). To achieve such a performance, the classical spherical mirror is replaced by a catadioptric mirror (i.e meniscus lens with a reflective surface on the rear side of the glass, like a Mangin mirror). This article focuses on the optical architecture of the PFS spectrograph and the perfornance achieved. We will first described the global optical design of the spectrograph. Then, we will focus on the Mangin-Schmidt camera design. The analysis of the optical performance and the results obtained are presented in the last section.

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Sandrine Pascal, Sébastien Vives, Robert Barkhouser, and James E. Gunn "Optical design of the SuMIRe/PFS spectrograph", Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 914747 (8 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055738

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