Bibcode
Allington-Smith, Jeremy R.; Birks, Timothy A.; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Cunningham, Colin R.; Dagupta, Sonali; Haynes, Roger; Garcia, Paulo J. V.; Kar, Ajoy K.; Kelz, Andreas; Kern, Pierre Y.; Labadie, L.; Lawrence, Jon S.; Le Coarer, Etienne P.; Roth, Martin M.; Minardi, Stefano; Sharples, Ray M.; Thomson, Robert R.
Bibliographical reference
Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation. Edited by Atad-Ettedgui, Eli; Lemke, Dietrich. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7739, pp. 773925-773925-13 (2010).
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Description
Astrophotonics offers a solution to some of the problems of building
instruments for the next generation of telescopes through the use of
photonic devices to miniaturise and simplify instruments. It has already
proved its worth in interferometry over the last decade and is now being
applied to nightsky background suppression. Astrophotonics offers a
radically different approach to highly-multiplexed spectroscopy to the
benefit of galaxy surveys such as are required to determine the
evolution of the cosmic equation of state. The Astrophotonica Europa
partnership funded by the EU via OPTICON is undertaking a wide-ranging
survey of the technological opportunities and their applicability to
high-priority astrophysical goals of the next generation of
observatories. Here we summarise some of the conclusions.