Astrophotonics offers a solution to some of the problems of building instruments for the next generation of telescopes through the use of photonic devices to miniaturise and simplify instruments. It has already proved its worth in interferometry over the last decade and is now being applied to nightsky background suppression. Astrophotonics offers

We introduce the concepts for the control and data handling systems of the European Solar Telescope (EST), the main functional and technical requirements for the definition of these systems, and the outcomes from the trade-off analysis to date. Concerning the telescope control, EST will have performance requirements similar to those of current

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The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a 4-m class solar telescope to be located in the Canary Islands which is currently in its conceptual design study. EST is a pan-european project (with 29 partners, plus 7 collaborating institutions, from 14 countries) promoted by the European Association for Solar Telescopes (EAST). In the current concept, the

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a pan-european project (with 29 partners, plus 7 collaborating institutions, from 14 countries) for the conceptual design study of a 4-meter class solar telescope promoted by the European Association for Solar Telescopes (EAST) to be located in the Canary Islands. The telescope, in the conceptual study

CODEX is the proposed ultra-stable optical high-resolution spectrograph for the E-ELT, which will use novel Laser Comb calibration techniques and an innovative design to open a new era for precision spectroscopy. With its unique combination of light-collecting power and precision, CODEX will make it possible to directly measure the acceleration of