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Modelling complex phenomena in optical fibres (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Allington-Smith, J., Murray, G., & Lemke, U. (2012, December). Modelling complex phenomena in optical fibres. Presented at Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, Amsterdam

We present a new model for predicting the performance of fibre systems in the multimode limit. This is based on ray-­‐tracing but includes a semi-­‐empirical description of Focal Ratio Degradation (FRD). We show how FRD is simulated by the model. Wit... Read More about Modelling complex phenomena in optical fibres.

Optical fiber systems for the BigBOSS instrument (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Edelstein, J., Poppett, C., Sirk, M., Besuner, R., Lafever, R., Allington-Smith, J., & Murray, G. (2012, September). Optical fiber systems for the BigBOSS instrument. Presented at Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II

We describe the fiber optics systems for use in BigBOSS, a proposed massively parallel multi-object spectrograph for the Kitt Peak Mayall 4-m telescope that will measure baryon acoustic oscillations to explore dark energy. BigBOSS will include 5,000... Read More about Optical fiber systems for the BigBOSS instrument.

Subaru FMOS now and future (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tamura, N., Takato, N., Iwamuro, F., Akiyama, M., Kimura, M., Tait, P., Dalton, G., Murray, G., Smedley, S., Maihara, T., Ohta, K., Moritani, Y., Yabe, K., Sumiyoshi, M., Totani, T., Sugai, H., Karoji, H., Wang, S.-Y., & Ohyama, Y. (2012, September). Subaru FMOS now and future. Presented at Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV