The scaling of next-generation ground- and space-based telescopes presents a critical challenge, as traditional diffraction-grating spectrographs scale in volume and mass roughly with the square of the telescope diameter, leading to prohibitive costs and stability issues. Photonic technology offers a promising solution...
Zhang-Qi Dang, Jian Ge, Shi-Jie Ke et al.· Astronomical Telescopes + In...· 1 citation
The Earth 2.0 (ET) mission is a dedicated space observatory designed to discover Earth-sized planets over a broad range of orbital separations and to measure the occurrence rates of terrestrial planets, including Earth 2.0s and free-floating Earth-mass planets. The observatory combines six 28-cm wide-field transit tele...
Astrophotonics is an emerging field that exploits photonic technologies to enable the miniaturization and integration of astronomical instrumentation. However, the fiber-coupling issue is arguably the most heated debate to determine whether photonics devices could become a practical solution for the development of next...