title: Development of integrated mode reformatting components for diffraction-limited spectroscopy.
abstract: We present the results of our work on developing fully integrated devices (photonic dicers) for reformatting multimode light to a diffraction limited pseudo-slit. These devices can be used to couple a seeing limited telescope point spread function to a spectrograph operating at the diffraction limit, thus potentially enabling compact, high-resolution spectrographs that are free of modal noise.
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: MacLachlan
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: Debaditya
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Choudhury
authors.forename: Richard D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Simmonds
authors.forename: Patrick S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Salter
authors.forename: Martin J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Booth
authors.forename: Jeremy R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Allington-Smith
authors.forename: Robert R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Thomson