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Optical Improvements from the FINDS Project

Optical Improvements from the FINDS Project
Optical Improvements from the FINDS Project Intensity distribution in the pupil plane without (a) and with (b) the FINDS fiber feed. The fiber dramatically improves the uniformity and the stability of the illumination of the spectrometer optics. From the 2013 paper Fiber Scrambling for High-Resolution Spectrographs. I. Lick Observatory. Julien Spronck