A fiber fed, wide beam collimator was developed as a tool to support the Assembly, Integration and Verification (AIV) tasks associated to the integration of the ESA-PLATO telescope unit (TOU) to the focal plane, for the 26 cameras that are going to be assembled at the Centre Spatial de Liége (CSL). This collimator will work as source for the alignment process at ambient temperature, providing a white light beam that must comply with a series of critical requirements, namely high spatial uniformity over an clear aperture of 150 mm (better than 85%), Wavefront Error associated to focus aberration at the level of λ/30 rms and high flux stability over time (2% in 24h). This paper will present the steps taken towards the development, manufacture and integration of this collimator, as well as the tests devised to evaluate requirements compliance.
After completion of its final-design review last year, it is full steam ahead for the construction of the MOONS instrument - the next generation multi-object spectrograph for the VLT. This remarkable instrument will combine for the first time: the 8 m collecting power of the VLT, 1000 optical fibres with individual robotic positioners and both medium- and high-resolution spectral coverage acreoss the wavelength range 0.65μm - 1.8 μm. Such a facility will allow a veritable host of Galactic, Extragalactic and Cosmological questions to be addressed. In this paper we will report on the current status of the instrument, details of the early testing of key components and the major milestones towards its delivery to the telescope.
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