Conclusions and Future Effort
VPH grating technology will allow the fabrication of novel new instruments for astronomical spectroscopy. Several such instruments are already in the works at such facilities as the Anglo-Australian Observatory, NOAO (see related poster on NOAO’s spectrograph for the 4-meter telescopes), SOAR, and ESO.
Future efforts will entail upgrading facilities to produce gratings as large as 200 to 300 mm (and possibly larger) and to continue to explore the unique capabilities of this technology.
This project is supported under Cooperative Agreement AST-9613615 awarded by the National Science Foundation.