Concept

Optical telescope

Related publications (86)

Realization and Characterization of MEMS-Based Programmable Slit Mask for Multi-Object Spectroscopy

Nico de Rooij, Michael David Canonica, Wilfried Noell

Multi-object spectroscopy (MOS) is a powerful tool for space and ground-based telescopes for studying the formation of galaxies. This technique requires a programmable slit mask for astronomical object selection. A first sample of MEMS-based programmable r ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2010

Generation of a high depth of focus with constant transversal spot size using a phase-only pupil filter

Pramod Rastogi, Daniel Iwaniuk

A novel approach is proposed to obtain an extended depth of focus (DoF) in white light with constant transversal spot size within the DoF. It combines a phase-only pupil filter based on multiplexed radial zones with alternating quartic phase functions. The ...

Taylor & Francis2010

Development of MEMS-based programmable slit mask for Multi-Object Spectroscopy

Nico de Rooij, Michael David Canonica, Wilfried Noell

We are developing MEMS-based programmable reflective slit masks for future generation infrared multi-object spectroscopy (MOS) for space and ground-based telescopes. These devices are composed of monocrystalline silicon micromirrors of size 200 x 100 um(2) ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2010

High-magnification vascular imaging to reject false-positive sites in situ during Hexvix® fluorescence cystoscopy

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Blaise Lovisa

Fluorescence imaging for detection of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer is based on the selective production and accumulation of fluorescing porphyrins-mainly, protoporphyrin IX-in cancerous tissues after the instillation of Hexvix (R). Although the sensi ...

2010

Generation and control of sound bullets with a nonlinear acoustic lens

Alessandro Spadoni

Acoustic lenses are employed in a variety of applications, from biomedical imaging and surgery to defense systems and damage detection in materials. Focused acoustic signals, for example, enable ultrasonic transducers to image the interior of the human bod ...

2010

Cosmology versus standard model

I will discuss a proposal for a unified solution of the problems of neutrino masses, dark matter, baryon asymmetry of the Universe and inflation, which does not require introduction of any new energy scale besides already known, namely the electroweak and ...

2010

Innovative High-Surface-Area CuO Pretreated Cotton Effective in Bacterial Inactivation under Visible Light

Juan Kiwi, Paul Bowen, Victor Sarria

This study presents the first report on enhanced bacterial inactivation of E. coli by RF-plasma pretreated cotton with high-surface-area CuO powders compared with nonpretreated cotton textiles. The high-surface-area CuO (65 m/g) powder was fully characteri ...

2010

A photoelectrochemical device for visible light driven water splitting by a molecular ruthenium catalyst assembled on dye-sensitized nanostructured TiO2

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Lin Li

A photoelectrochem. device with a mol. Ru catalyst assembled via pH-modified Nafion on a dye-sensitized nanostructured TiO2 film as anode and a Pt foil as cathode has been successfully demonstrated to split water into O2 and H2 driven by visible light. ...

2010

Three-dimensional force measurements in optical tweezers formed with high-NA micromirrors

László Forró, René Salathé, Fabrice Merenda, Sylvia Jeney, Mathieu Grossenbacher

The three-dimensional trap stiffness of optical tweezers formed with high-NA micromirrors is investigated by back-focal-plane interferometry and power spectrum analysis. Normalized stiffness values of kappa(xy)/P-trap =1.2(mu N/m)/mW and kappa(z)/P-trap = ...

Optical Society of America2009

Ultrathin four-reflection imager

We present the design and experimental demonstration of an ultrathin four-reflection imager. The F/1.15 prototype imager achieves a focal length of 18.6 mm in a track length of just 5.5 mm, providing a 17° field of view over 1.92 megapixels of a color imag ...

2009

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.