Bibcode
Herrera, Guillermo A.; Gigante, José V.; Joven, Enrique; Pérez, Ángeles; Cepa, Jordi
Bibliographical reference
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy. Edited by McLean, Ian S.; Iye, Masanori. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6269, pp. 62694F (2006).
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Description
OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated
Spectroscopy) is the optical Day One instrument for the 10.4m Spanish
telescope GTC (Gran Telescopio Canarias). The instrument spectral range
covers from 365 up to 1000 nm. One of the most important elements of
OSIRIS is its two commercial ICOS ET100 wide field Fabry-Perot tunable
filters, that will provide a powerful tool to analyse faint emission
line objects. Currently, the unique controller available for such device
is the so called CS100. Due to the necessity of improvement and addition
of some specifications of such controller, a first prototype electronic
module has been made and tested successfully. Now, it has developed the
final product: a compact mini-module integrated in the CS100 controller,
offering a 16-bit resolution over the full range cavity spacing; be able
to synchronize cavity changes with an external trigger; full remote
control over the front panel of the device and capability to monitor all
their signals. It also offers the possibility to load a preprogrammed
table sequence of cavity spacing changes, programmable security limits
of dynamic range and slew rate applied; and it has high stability over
time too. The electronic control is based on an embedded microcontroller
into a FPGA.