Defining requirements and identifying relevant technologies in Astrophotonics

Defining requirements and identifying relevant technologies in astrophotonics

Jeremy R. Allington-Smitha; Timothy A. Birksb, Joss Bland-Hawthornc,f, Colin R. Cunninghamd, Sonali Daguptae, Roger Haynesf,i,n, Paulo J. V. Garciag, Ajoy K. Karh, Andreas Kelzi,n, Pierre Y.

Kernj, Lucas Labadiek, Jon S. Lawrencel, Etienne P. Le Coarerj, Martin M. Rothi,n, Stefano Minardim, Ray M. Sharplesa, Robert R. Thomsonh

aDurham University, Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, Physics Department, Rochester Building, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE (United Kingdom), bUniv. of Bath (United Kingdom), cThe

Univ. of Sydney (Australia), dUK Astronomy Technology Ctr. (United Kingdom), eUniv. of Southampton (United Kingdom); fAnglo-Australian Observatory (Australia);); gUniv. do Porto

(Portugal); hHeriot-Watt Univ. (United Kingdom); iAstrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (Germany); jLab. d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble (France), kInstituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

(Spain), lMacquarie Univ. (Australia), mFriedrich Schiller Univ. Jena (Germany), nInnoFSPEC, Potsdam (Germany).

ABSTRACT

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. Keywords: instruments:spectrometer, instruments:interferometer, techniques:spectroscopy, techniques:interferometry

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Adolescence of the Revolution

The potential advantage of the application of photonic devices and principles to astronomy has long been established and some impressive claims advanced for simplification and miniaturization of the complex instruments required for future observatories such as the Extremely Large Telescopes and the next generation of long-baseline optical-infrared interferometers. In the vanguard of the “Astrophotonic revolution”1 are photonic beam-combiners (already with a decade heritage)2,3 and nightsky suppression by means of Bragg fibre gratings4. Others, such as spectrometer miniaturization to allow integration with individual multimode optical fibres for highly-multiplexed spectroscopy (HMS) have been shown to work in principle but require efficient coupling devices between multimoded celestial light and the single-modes required by the photonic devices. Furthermore although, the potential benefit to astronomy is to some extent, self evident, the precise arena in which astrophotonic devices may be critical to fully realize the benefit of the enormous investment in new observatories has not yet been clearly delineated.

These considerations have led to a redefinition of the goal of the Astrophotonic revolutionaries. This was originally a bottom-up activity to adapt existing devices, developed by the telecommunications industry, to astronomy with little additional cost or effort. However, this paradigm has run into problems as researchers find that even modest developments, although cheap by industry standards are expensive by the standards of academia and that the required

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modifications to off-the-shelf components are non-trivial. Despite this much has been achieved, but to demonstrate the full potential of astrophotonics, we must also demonstrate – in a top-down process – how cherished astrophysical goals such as studies of the assembly of galaxies via galactic archaeology, the equation of state of the universe and exo-Earth searches can be addressed directly by Astrophotonics. This requires a process to map astrophysical studies onto the capabilities of photonic devices. This will

• Identify areas where investment in Astrophotonic devices will produce tangible benefit

• Identify astrophysical goals which can only be achieved by astrophotonics

• Identify the key enabling technologies in which we must concentrate our limited resources

1.2 Astrophotonica Europa

Astrophotonica Europa (APE) is a partnership of academia and industry based in Europe but with strategic partners in Australia with the shared goal of advancing the revolution by coordinating activities and sharing ideas and disseminating them to the wider community. Originally an outgrowth of the OPTICON FP6-funded Key Technologies Network, it received independent funding via OPTICON in FP7. It is now executing a work programme of which the first part is summarized in this paper. This is less ambitious than the original programme due to a significant reduction in budget during the EU contract negotiation. APE welcomes contact with groups (academia and industry) worldwide despite its Eurocentric outlook.

1.3 Methodology

Our methodology reflects the duality of the top-down and bottom-up approach and the search for a meeting between these tendrils to form stable threads of communication and progress. It consists of the following steps.

• Identify areas of greatest astrophysical interest both now, and by projection into the future

• Using our knowledge of Astrophotonic capabilities that have already been explored, we can map out the areas of contemporary astrophysics where astrophotonics may make a big difference either in improving performance or making the observations feasible. This defines both generic enabling technologies and the scientific applicability of astrophotonics.

• Survey and identify potential specific photonic technologies and assess their potential to improve performance especially in the previous process.

• From this we identify the most relevant specific technologies and derive their top-level requirements from science requirements from the science applicability document.

This paper presents some of the preliminary conclusions of the OPTICON workpackages defined to carry out this programme.

2. BOTTOM-UP: WHAT ASTROPHOTONICS CAN OFFER ASTRONOMY 2.1 Astrophotonics defined

Photonics is defined here as technology which influences the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through materials by modification to their structure. Examples include the introduction of anisotropies in propagation by the sculpting of waveguides or formation of periodic structures in materials. By implication this excludes material properties inherent to the material such as transmissivity, (complex) refractive index and their variation with temperature. Thus it excludes properties such as natural birefringence in optically-active materials. However the definition of what is photonic and what is not cannot be rigid and there are obvious technologies which do not fall conveniently into the category, such as microstuctured electrically-actuated (MEMS) devices made by photolithography such as micro-mirror and micro-shutter arrays or complex antireflection coatings deposited on non-photonic optical substrates. Astrophotonics is simply the application of photonics to astronomy. The purpose of astrophotonics is to answer the big astrophysical questions centered on our existence, not to advance photonics as a science. It aims to do this by exploiting technology already developed for other applications (chiefly telecommunications), rather than creating a new technology from scratch. This means that astronomers must fully

embrace photonics as a necessary discipline for several reasons: firstly to train a new generation of astrophotonicists with specific skills in photonics; secondly, to interact with – and speak the same language as - established photonics experts in academia and industry; thirdly, to feed the benefit of any new technology that we develop back to industry for mutual benefit and, finally to transfer knowledge to symbiotic areas such as bio-medical science, energy generation and climate research. 2.2 Photonic capabilities relevant to astronomy

We need a working definition of astrophotonics to guide our examination of the potential benefits to astronomy. This is best done by reference to available technologies which include:

a) Light conditioning and transport technology: Complex antireflection coatings and Bragg gratings [Bland-Hawthorn etc] inscribed in waveguides or fibres, efficient high throughput, phase-preserving light transport prior to beam combination in interferometry3

b) Light rerouting through optical switch networks for HMS using the diverse-field spectroscopy (DFS) paradigm5. c) Coupling devices to enhance the efficiency with which multimode (MM) celestial light gathered by the

telescope can be coupled into the necessarily-single-moded (SM) photonic devices – either before entering the instrument or before the dispersion/analysis/detector stage6.This includes photonic lanterns7 , lenslet arrays and bulk optical systems. This needs to take account of the nature of the input light provided by the telescope8 and – importantly – by the Adaptive Optics system which may be optimised for different field sizes.

d) Phase-preserving light combination and active optical path modulation for interferometry.

e) Manipulation of phase (e.g. in vortex coronagraphs)9 and aperture reconstruction10. f) Dispersion of light using novel technologies such as volume-phase gratings made by holography or direct

inscription or through new approaches such as Stationary Wave Integrated Fourier Transform Spectrometry (SWIFTS) using the Lippmann configuration11 and variations of Michelson interferometry – Fourier and Hadamard)

g) Detector technologies using structured photo-sensitive regions: heterodyne receivers, transition-edge detectors,

kinetic inductance devices and detectors which sense energy or phase directly. These individual technologies are subject to the following system requirements.

a) To operate over a wide wavelength range. Many photonic devices are inherently restricted in their operational range (due the limitations of substrate materials) or in the simultaneously accessible wavelength range (e.g. need to multiplex in wavelength, or use of diffractive optics). A major driver here is to extend the operational range into the mid-IR (3-30µm) through the use of e.g. chalcogenide materials, from the visible and near-IR (0.5-2µm)12.

b) To use integrated optics to simplify the instruments so that they are easier to construct, align and operate while increasing efficiency by eliminating bulk optics. Examples include the use of laser-inscription of 3D waveguide networks 13,14 for MM-SM conversion and photonic phased-array dispersers

c) Fabrication of microstructures by different methods such as the drawing of photonic crystal fibres,

photolithography, molecular beam epitaxy, laser inscription in suitable materials and holography. 2.3 Unique features of Astrophotonic instruments

Photonic devices offer potential advantages to instruments in the following areas.

a) Size/mass/cost: e.g. Integrated Photonic Spectrographs (IPS) can achieve high spectra resolution with a much smaller size15,16.This benefits transport, installation and cryogenics for infrared operations and brings the potential for large-scale production at low cost as well as greater flexibility in switching between operational modes and upgrading the instrument.

b) High multiplex with great versatility by integrating IPS with pickoff devices such as multimode fibres, or via

DFS5,17.

c) Removal of background light before analysis/detection: e.g. to remove the telluric OH background it is best to filter the light before it enters the spectrograph and is scattered to form an instrumental background4.

d) Integrated optics to obtain small size, high efficiency and easier operation in interferometry: e.g. suppression of

several levels of bulk optics potentially affecting the total throughput. 2.4 Examples of relevant astrophotonics work in progress

Many of the activities of APE and others are conveniently summarised in the Astrophotonics focus issue of Optics Express18. This includes.

• Interferometric beam combiners using on-chip spectrodetection featuring SWIFTS-Lipmann interferometer waveguides with detection of evanescent fields by superconducting single photon detectors19 (Figs 1 and 2)

• Evaluation of an integrated photonic spectrograph20 (Fig. 3]

• Removal of night-sky emission features by aperiodic Bragg gratings inscribed on single-mode fibres [Bland-Hawthorn et al], (Fig. 4). Implementation on 8-10m telescopes is currently under consideration (GNOSIS).

• The application of Ultrafast Laser Inscription13 (Fig 5) to astrophotonics to fabricate the complex 3D waveguide structures required for interferometric beam combination14, photonic lanterns and photonic dispersion by phased arrays Other relevant technologies include Sol-Gel planar optics21. For MM-SM converters, the current technology is photonic crystal fibre transitions7.

Figure 1: Left - illustration of the principle of the SWIFTS-Lipmann interferometer used in a fully-integrated coherent beam combiner beam combiner22. The detection of the interferograms is done by nano-detectors (e.g. Super-conducting photon detectors) operating in the evanescent field surrounding the waveguides. Right – a design for a 4-telescope beam-combiner.

Fig. 2 SWIFTS-Lipmann interferometer pre-industrial prototype. Top – recorded spectrum of a tunable DFB laser. The length of spectrum is 1.5mm. The inset shows more detail. The extracted spectrum is shown at bottom right plotted on a logarithmic scale of intensity (arbitrary units). The resolving power is 5000 at wavelength 785nm. The device is shown at bottom left.

Fig. 3: Integrated photonic spectrograph adapted from a commercial Arrayed Waveguide Grating device. Top-left: principle of operation: Bottom-left: tested device; Top-right: Response to monochromatic light20 indicating a resolving power of ~1500 at wavelength 1540nm; Bottom-right: Efficiency over a band in the infrared (Jon Lawrence priv. com.).

Figure 4: Left - Results from on-sky test of OH suppression [Hawthorn et al. 2009]. From top to bottom, the population of telluric emission lines to be removed at near infrared wavelengths (scale in µm); the planned amount of suppression is shown by the vertical lines and the blobs show what was achieved with details shown in the insets.Top-right: a simulation of a distant quasar (z = 10) with and without OH suppression6. Bottom right, a photonic lantern used in this work7.

Figure 5: Waveguide array conceptual diagrams. Top-left: a dispersive 3D waveguide array. Top-right: an integrated OH-suppression filter. Bottom-left : 3D waveguide array with input and output devices16. These devices are designed to be implemented by a Ultrafast Laser Inscription system13. Bottom-right: a photonic beam combiner based on two-dimensional waveguide arrays. The 4 beams are coupled into an array of coupled waveguides. The interference pattern is detected by a 16-pixel detector to yield the amplitude and phase of each incident field14.

3. TOP-DOWN: SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS To evaluate the astrophysical (“science”) requirements placed on these devices, we took science cases already determined for the e-ELT (Science cases and requirements for the ESO ELT: Report of the ELT Science Working Group, http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/eelt/science/doc/swg_report_06.pdf, ES0 Apr 2006) and extracted the top-priority programmes. From this and our own experience we determined the science requirements (Table 1). Full details are in the OPTICON workpackage documents (in preparation). The instrumental parameters are divided between the spatial and spectral domain. It should be noted that the temporal domain is also important for some cases such as Realtime Cosmology and AGNs and Blackholes. In this case the approximate timescales are indicated. Also shown are cases where interferometry is required with the number of apertures to be combined indicated. D(X) refers to the diffraction limit of the telescope (X=T) or the beam (X=B).

Table 1: Summary of high-priority astrophysical investigations.

Investigation method Spatial domain Spectral domain Time domain

Aper tures

Field Multi-

plex Resol-ution

Conti-guity

Operat-ional

Simult-aneous

Resol-ution

Samp ling

arcsec mas μm μm λ/δλ

1 Realtime cosmology

Synoptic survey 3 50 0.4-0.7 105 years

2 Cosmic EOS Survey >1000 >103 1000 1-10 0.4-3 Octave 102-104 3 First light Survey >1000 >100 100 >100 1-2 Octave >3000

4 IGM metallicity

300 1 0.55-0.7

>0.1 105

5 Distant galaxies

Integrated Resolved

<300 <100

>100 >100

200 50

0.4-2.5 Octave 103-104

6 AGN & blackholes

Spectral mapping Interferom

<10 >10

D(T) 0.01

>1000 0.4-3.5 2-2.5

>0.2 2-2.5

500 - 5x104 3000

days 4

7 Resolved stellar pops

Colour-mag Age-kinem

<10 <200

I 10-50

D(T) <100

0.6-3 0.5-0.9

0.1 0.1

1 <5x104

8 Galactic Archaeology

Chemistry Kinematics

>1000 >1000 100 1-10 0.4-0.9 Octave 0.01

>3x104

9 Stellar clusters (IMF)

>100 <10 0.5-5 1000

10 Stellar youth, disk & debris

Astrometry-XAO Interferometry

<10 1 D(T), D(B)

>10 1-5

0.1-1* 10-104 >5

11 Extrasolar planets

Transit Radial Velocity XAO Interferometry

D(T) D(B)

2-10 2-10 1-3 1-5

5 >105

4. DEFINING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Here we summarise the link between the capabilities described in §2 and the science requirements defined in §3. This is not just an a posteriori exercise in matching capabilities and requirements, but a means of defining the technical requirements for a system (i.e. an instrument or major instrument sub-assembly) with these capabilities. It is important to realize that these capabilities refer to the system not just the individual widget. For example, HMS requires high multiplex but the individual integrated spectrographs may have no multiplex capability. The HMS systems considered are discussed further below. The link between capability and requirement is summarized in Table 2 which contains a set of standarised entries for a number of instrumental systems. The derived technical requirements are summarized in §5. Full details of this and a comprehensive set of capabilities are contained in the OPTICON workpackage documents (In preparation).

Table 2: Examples of instrumental capabilities indexed to the science Requirements by “Astrophysical area”

Title Telluric background suppression (OHS)

Astrophysical area 2 3 5 6 7 9 10

Technological benefit Important for all spectroscopy over NIR to increase SNR at moderate resolution

Methodology Remove strong OH emission lines by notch filter realized by aperiodic Bragg grating

Key references 4, 6

Critical requirement Greatly improve SNR for resolving power > 3000 in near-IR

Key technology challenge MM-SM converter (Fibre/waveguide transitions)

Title Multiobject integrated multiobject spectrograph (IP-MOS)

Astrophysical area 1 2 (3) 5 7 8

Technological benefit Highly-multiplexed spectroscopy for increased versatillty and reduced bulk

Methodology Integrate Multimode fibres (MMF) to infidel integrated spectrographs

Key references 15, 16, 20

Critical requirement High multiplex at low cost with high efficiency

Key technology challenge MMF-SMF converter, Photonic disperser (e.g. AWG, Lipmann), 1D detector; integrated optics.

Title Diverse-field integrated photonic spectrograph (IP-DFS)

Astrophysical area 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10

Technological benefit Highly-multiplexed spectroscopy for increased versatility and reduced bulk.

Methodology Integrate fibres (MMF) to individual integrated spectrographs. This differs from IP-MOS in that the MM-SM coupling could be combined with the selection of a group of spaxels realised by an array of SM fibres acting as a mini-IFU. If the coupling is efficient (e.g. using pupil feed), this will avoid the need for a photonic lantern for MM-SM conversion. See Figs 6 and 7.

Key references 5, 15, 16, 17

Critical requirement High multiplex and efficiency, with reasonable sub-field size (or true DFS capability) at low cost

Key technology challenge SMF array with efficient coupling; Photonic switch network (for true DFS); Photonic disperser (e.g. AWG, SWIFTS), 2D detector; integrated optics-less construction; Suppression of inter-spaxel cross-talk

Title Multi-beam integrated optics in the mid-infrared (MBIO)

Astrophysical area (7) 9 10 11

Technological benefit Improved multi-aperture spectro-interferometry for aperture synthesis imaging (ASI) and for nulling at mid-IR wavelengths. Relevant both for spectroscopic searches (e.g. H2O and CO2 ices (3, 5, 15 μm), simple organic molecules (PAH, HCN, C2H2 between 10 and 15 μm)) and for high-angular resolution and high-contrast imaging/photometry in the mid-IR (e.g. characterization of exoplanets atmospheres by

mid-IR nulling interferometry; aperture synthesis imaging (ASI) of the inner planets forming regions of protoplanetary disks)

Methodology Combine interferometrically the light from >3 sub-apertures and measure visibilities/phase closures for ASI, Obtain high stability nulling ratio to 10-4. Actively control the phase shift to a 0.01λ level over an astronomical infrared band.

Key references 12, 23,24

Critical requirement High throughput and low coupling losses; Wavelength coverage from 3 to 20 μm in several bands; Single-mode behavior (MM-SM conversion).

Key technology challenge Single-mode multi-channel planar and 3-D IO chips using infrared materials (chalcogenide/passive, Ge on Si/passive, LiNbO3/active); Photonics crystal devices for controlled achromatic phase shift; IR coatings for Fresnel losses; MM/SM conversion; high-throughput fibers for signal transport

Title Long-baseline interferometry (LBI)

Astrophysical area 6 10

Technological benefit Important for combining many telescopes beams, reduced bulk and address all phase disturbance issues. Ensure SM operation that improve the precision of the contrast measurement

Methodology Combine interferometrically the light from >3 sub-apertures and measure visibilities/phase closures for Aperture Synthesis Imaging, Obtain high stability nulling ratio to 10-4. Actively control the phase shift to a 0.01λ level over an astronomical infrared band.

Key references 2, 3, 14

Critical requirement Stable beam combination

Key technology challenge SM fibers, Integrated optics (existing) , AWG or SWIFTS, direct detection

5. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS From the previous examples of system capabilities enabled by astrophotonics, we can now define a set of technical requirements. As we translate the science requirements into instrumental Technical Requirements, we need to define a set of parameters relating to the technology. EFF: End-to-end efficiency for sub-system specified including effect of modification to the pupil or image in external

sub-systems (e.g. due to alignment errors)

FLX: Long-term error in maintaining the target image at the same location on the detector surface

MPW: Modal purity of the waveguides. Although this primarily affects the throughput and can be assessed by reference to that quantity, it is sometimes a primary metric of the system (especially in interferometry).

MXF: Spatial multiplex factor – the number of objects observable simultaneously

NFT: Need For Thermalization. This is especially important for λ>2μm

NRP: Error in acquiring the target onto the same location on the detector surface

POL : Polarisation control expressed as a polarisation fraction.

Figure 6: Impact of Diverse Field Spectroscopy (DFS)5,17. Left – Lyman-α emitters in a probable protocluster (Anne-Marie Weijmanns, priv. com). Right – Efficiency in addressing such clumpy distributions as quantified by the index of the 3D two-point correlation function. This shows that DFS (with incoherent remapping) is a more powerful technique than multiobject (MOS) or integral-field spectroscopy, either with a single large (sIFS) or deployable multiple (mIFS) integral field units. DFS may be implemented by a variety of technologies including robots, fibre-based optical switches and free-space MEMS arrays (see Murray, Allington-Smith and Poppett, these proceedings).

Unit spaxel subfieldselection

MM-SMconversion

Propagation intoPhotonic disperser

Photonic dispersion(1D)

Propagation to detector

Detection(1D)

Multimode Celestial light

Direct multi-spaxel pickoff into SM array

Geometrical conversion

Propagation intoPhotonic disperser

Photonic dispersion(2D)

Propagation to detector

Detection(2D)

Monolithic fibre array

Switch network

Celestial selector

1 spaxel Group of spaxelsSpectral data

IP-MOS (IP-IFS) IP-DFS

Figure 7: Different types of integrated photonic spectrographs shown by the functional architecture (from top to bottom). MOS = multiobject; IFS = integral field; DFS = diverse field (optimised combination of MOS and IFS). Areas requiring astrophotonics are shown in pink.

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SFV: Field of view of each sub-field within which all spaxels are simultaneously observed

SPX: Spaxel size – the spatial sampling defined in relation to the FWHM (diameter enclosing 50% of the energy in a 2D Gaussian function), generally sampled at the Nyquist-Shannon limit.

SWR: Wavelength range available with a single instrument configuration

SRP: Spectral resolving power (wavelength/spectral resolution)

STL: Stray-light expressed as a degradation in SNR

TFV: Total field of view over which targets may be acquired but not necessarily observed simultaneously

TWR: Total contiguous wavelength range over which device satisfies the other specifications although not necessarily available simultaneously with a single configuration

In Table 3, we summarise the main technical requirements needed for these capabilities. FBB indicates standard photometric broad passbands (e.g. U, B, V.... K, L, M) and RSN is the Signal-to-noise degradation due to a sub-system relative to a defined baseline

Table 3: Summary of requirements for system using identified Astrophotonic devices.

Attribute OHS IPS-MOS

IPS-IFS

IPS-DFS

MBIO LBI Unit

EFF Throughput >0.9 >0.6 >0.6 > 0.5 0.6 SPX Spaxel 0.5-1.5 0.5-1.5 5-25 D(T)-0.1 D (B) arcsec SFV Subfield 1 1 25-100 ~ 3 - spaxel TFV Total field 10-60 5-10 5-10 < 15 D (T) arcmin MXF: Multiplex >100 >100 >1000 ≥2 2 SWR Sim wavel 0.3 0.4 0.4 1 FBB FBB μm TWR Total wavel 0.4-1.0

0.9-2.2 0.4-2.5 0.4-2.5 3-20 1-2.5

SRP Spect resol >5000 300-3000 1000-10000 30-300 500-10000 (10)

FLX Flexure <10% <10% <10% 0.1D(B) 0.1 D(B) spaxel STL Straylight <10% <10% <10% ASI: <1% <1% POL Polarisation Yes MPW Modal purity <10 <10? <10 ASI: <1

NUL: <0.1 %

NFT Thermalisation Yes 77K for λ>1.8μm

Yes 77K

6. CONCLUSIONS AND FURTHER WORK We have considered the scientific applicability of photonic devices and techniqes in astronomy. This has been done both by considering the unique features of photonic devices and the generic capabilities that they bring and a representative set of science requirements derived from existing science cases for the European Extremely Large Telescope and other sources. This has served to identify the key enabling photonic technologies that may prove critical for future observatories. In the field of spectroscopy. The key capabilities include the following examples. We expect to add more.

• Efficient coupling from multimoded celestial light into individual single modes so that the photonic processes can operate efficiently

• The ability to construct complex waveguide networks for the fabrication of efficient MM-SM couplers

• High capacity switching networks to allow arbitrary selection of target spatial elements in a confused or highly structured field.

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These capabilities will all benefit highly multiplexed spectroscopy which is the key astronomical technique for large statistical surveys of galaxies for cosmological studies relating to the dark energy component of the universe and the formation of galaxies from sub-galactic components. This is also key to studies of active galaxies and black holes which require mapping of perturbed material in highly-structured regions or where the stellar population is highly confused.

For studies of earth-like exoplanets, a key astrophotonic capability is

• Phase masks to aid high-contrast studies of stellar system25

Coming from the bottom up we have undertaken a major survey of applicable photonic technology. For example this includes semi-integrated Compact Grating Spectrometers26, Side Holographic Dispersion27, Crystal Photonic Super Prisms28 MEMS-based spectrometers 29. Plasmonic devices30, Iintegrated Fourier Transform spectrometers employing fibre-based Bragg gratings31 and “Leaky Loops”32. The full survey will be in the OPTICON workpackage documents (in preparation). The most applicable technology will form the core of APE’s future workplan and be the basis for a second-phase OPTICON/FP7 proposal.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007- 2013) under grant agreement number RG226604 (OPTICON). We thank OPTICON and its Project Scientist, Gerry Gilmore, for help and encouragement.

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