TY - CHAP
T1 - Photonic fibers and waveguides
AU - Lawrence, Jon S.
AU - Leon-Saval, Sergio G.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Over the last few decades, the use of photonic fibers and waveguides in astronomical instrumentation has grown substantially. This paper provides a summary of the driving motivations for this growth. We also provide a description of the key devices and concepts that include photonic lanterns, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), waveguide Bragg gratings, hexabundles, mode scrambling fibers, integrated beam combiners and nullers, ring resonators, and integrated spectrographs. In the years ahead, as emerging photonic fields grow in maturity, we expect to see a regular sequence of such new techniques transitioning through lab demonstration, on-telescope demonstration, and onto new science results.
AB - Over the last few decades, the use of photonic fibers and waveguides in astronomical instrumentation has grown substantially. This paper provides a summary of the driving motivations for this growth. We also provide a description of the key devices and concepts that include photonic lanterns, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), waveguide Bragg gratings, hexabundles, mode scrambling fibers, integrated beam combiners and nullers, ring resonators, and integrated spectrographs. In the years ahead, as emerging photonic fields grow in maturity, we expect to see a regular sequence of such new techniques transitioning through lab demonstration, on-telescope demonstration, and onto new science results.
U2 - 10.1142/9789811203787_0006
DO - 10.1142/9789811203787_0006
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789814644310
SN - 9789814644365
T3 - World Scientific series in astrophysics
SP - 115
EP - 136
BT - The WSPC handbook of astronomical instrumentation
A2 - Moore, Anna M.
A2 - Burrows, David N.
PB - World Scientific Publishing
CY - Hackensack, NJ
ER -