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Progress towards instrument miniaturisation for mid-IR long-baseline interferometry

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We report recent results on passive mid-infrared integrated optics from the project “Advanced Laser-writing for Stellar Interferometry” and shortly describe the perspectives of their hybridisation with active components for the benefit of the spectro-interferometry technique.

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Acknowledgements

ALSI is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through contracts 05A14PK2 and 05A14SJA.

Near and mid-IR research activities on spectro-interferometers are funded by the Labex FOCUS and the Action Spécifique Haute Résolution Angulaire.

We thank the anonymous referee for his comments aiming at improving the quality of the paper.

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  1. I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937, Cologne, Germany

    Lucas Labadie

  2. Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ., Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Stefano Minardi

  3. InnoFSPEC, Leibnitz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Stefano Minardi

  4. University Grenoble Alpes/CNRS, IPAG, 38000, Grenoble, France

    Guillermo Martín

  5. Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

    Robert R. Thomson

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Labadie, L., Minardi, S., Martín, G. et al. Progress towards instrument miniaturisation for mid-IR long-baseline interferometry. Exp Astron 46, 433–445 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-018-9589-y

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