Cryogenic MOS unit for LUCIFER

Reiner Hofmann; Holger Mandel; Walter Seifert; Andreas Seltmann; Niranjan A. Thatte; Daigo Tomono; Harald Weisz

doi:10.1117/12.460892

7 March 2003 Cryogenic MOS-unit for LUCIFER

Reiner Hofmann, Holger Mandel, Walter Seifert, Andreas Seltmann, Niranjan A. Thatte, Daigo Tomono, Harald Weisz

Proceedings Volume 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460892
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

We present a system for the exchange and handling of cold field masks in LUCIFER, the near infrared camera and spectrograph for the LBT. Inside the LUCIFER cryostat, 10 field-stop and long-slit masks, and 23 multi-slit masks are stored in a stationary and an exchangeable cabinet respectively. With LUCIFER at operating temperature, the exchangeable cabinet with its multi-slit masks can be transferred from the LUCIFER cryostat to an auxiliary cryostat, and a second cabinet harboring the newly made, pre-cooled masks can be transferred back to LUCIFER from a second auxiliary cryostat. Inside LUCIFER, a robot transports the individual masks from their storage position in the cabinet to the focal plane and inserts them in a mask mount where they are centered on two pins. The position accuracy of the masks in the focal plane is anticipated to be better than ± 10 μm. A mechanism which locks the masks in their cabinets and releases only the one connected to the transport robot permits mask exchange in arbitrary orientation of the cryostat.

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Reiner Hofmann, Holger Mandel, Walter Seifert, Andreas Seltmann, Niranjan A. Thatte, Daigo Tomono, and Harald Weisz "Cryogenic MOS-unit for LUCIFER", Proc. SPIE 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes, (7 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460892

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