@inproceedings{f8e2242a6ac54f0f87557560a612f2cd,
title = "The Large Fiber Array Spectroscopic Telescope: Fiber Feed and Spectrometer Conceptual Design",
abstract = "The Large Fiber Array Spectroscopic Telescope, LFAST, will use optical fibers to combine light from thousands of small telescopes at centrally located high-resolution spectrometers. LFAST aims to use mass replication of small, self-contained telescope systems to provide ELT sized collecting area and spectroscopic capabilities at a drastically reduced price. However, fundamental constraints such as {\'e}tendue, fiber modal noise, and focal-plane sampling that affect the size and complexity of spectrometers for single telescope ELTs also impact LFAST. We are carrying out a three year study to tackle these challenges. In this paper, we describe the conceptual designs for the fiber feed assemblies that carry light from the individual telescopes to a centralized location, and the high-resolution spectrometer that accepts this light.",
keywords = "LFAST, telescopes, fiber-feeds, spectrometers",
author = "Bender, {Chad F.} and Angel, {J. Roger} and Joel Berkson and Peter Gray and Samuel Halverson and Hyukmo Kang and Daewook Kim and Andrew Monson and Oh, {Chang Jin} and Matthew Rademacher and Christian Schwab and Andrew Young and Dennis Zaritsky",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1117/12.2628710",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781510653498",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
pages = "1--8",
editor = "Evans, {Christopher J.} and Bryant, {Julia J.} and Kentaro Motohara",
booktitle = "Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX",
address = "United States",
note = "Conference on Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX ; Conference date: 17-07-2022 Through 22-07-2022",
}