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Ortiz, R.; Carrasco, E.; Páez, G.; Reyes, J.; Hidalgo, Andrea; Dalton, Gavin; Trager, Scott; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; Vallenari, Antonella; Abrams, Don Carlos; Middleton, Kevin
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Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10706, id. 107065G 12 pp. (2018).
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In this work we present the coatings of the spectrograph red camera of
WEAVE -the new multiobject survey facility for the 4.2m William Herschel
Telescope. The initial requirements of WEAVE red camera lenses, with
reflectances as low as 0.4% through the wavelength interval from 590 nm
to 959 nm at angles of incidence of 18° +/- 17° represented a
challenge for both design and production. Based on initial requirements,
several solutions to the same problem were achieved and tested. The
customized designs have been continuously improved through theoretical
and experimental approximations. From transmittance measurements at
normal incidence we developed a method to determine the reflectance at
different angles of incidence. We show the designs and coating
transmittance obtained for the four glasses on test runs to guarantee
that the designs were achievable experimentally. Additionally, we
present the reflectance obtained on the lenses of the the first four
lenses of WEAVE red camera.