Optical design of VIPER: a high-resolution multimode fiber-fed VIPA spectrograph for characterizing exoplanet atmospheric escape

arXiv:2607.22454 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-07-24 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-07-24

Updated: 2026-07-24

Comments: 17 pages, 23 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Virtually Imaged Phased Array — 9× in this paper
• Aperture — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory — 4× in this paper
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Magellan Clay Telescope and Giant Magellan Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Volume Phase Holographic — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Coupling loss and transmission in a multimode fiber-fed Virtually Imaged Phased Array (VIPA)
• Bridging Theory and Experiment in Virtually Imaged Phased Array (VIPA) Spectrometers

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