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Supercontinuum light sources for use in astronomical instrumentation: a test with PMAS, the Potsdam multi-aperture spectrophotometerFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
Supercontinuum white light sources (SCLS) are intense, spatially coherent laser sources with a very broad and flat
spectral energy distribution which have very quickly found ubiquitous use in optical laboratories. As photonics is now
providing more and more applications for astronomical instrumentation, the possible use of SCLS as a calibration light
source for spectroscopy has been tested. A standard industrial SCLS was coupled to the calibration unit of the PMAS
integral field spectrophotometer and compared directly to the PMAS standard tungsten filament lamp that is normally
used for calibration exposures. We report on comparative measurements concerning flux, spectral energy distribution,
and temporal stability.
Paper Details
Date Published: 22 July 2010
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 7739, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation, 773926 (22 July 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.857381
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7739:
Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation
Eli Atad-Ettedgui; Dietrich Lemke, Editor(s)
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 7739, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation, 773926 (22 July 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.857381
Show Author Affiliations
Martin M. Roth, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
Hans-Gerd Löhmannsröben, Univ. Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
Carsten Dosche, Univ. Potsdam (Germany)
Christer Sandin, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
Oliver Reich, Univ. Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
Hans-Gerd Löhmannsröben, Univ. Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
Carsten Dosche, Univ. Potsdam (Germany)
Christer Sandin, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
Oliver Reich, Univ. Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
Roger Haynes, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
Lasse Leick, NKT Photonics A/S (Denmark)
José Manuel Chávez Boggio, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
Andreas Kelz, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
Lasse Leick, NKT Photonics A/S (Denmark)
José Manuel Chávez Boggio, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (Germany)
innoFSPEC Potsdam (Germany)
Andreas Kelz, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (Germany)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7739:
Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation
Eli Atad-Ettedgui; Dietrich Lemke, Editor(s)
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