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Caption: Figure 19.
The LVM Fiber System. The four fiber bundles coming from the IFUs (right) enter the “Sorting Hat,” where almost 2000 fiber splices redistribute them to the fiber bundles leading to the entrance slits of the spectrographs (left). The inset photos show a back illumination test performed at LCO during installation in 2023 February. Three different colored lamps illuminate the slit heads (upper left). The science telescope IFU then reveals the distribution of fibers by the spectrograph (lower right). See also Figure 19 for a more detailed schematic view of the fiber system and note the very small number of broken or damaged links (the dark spots in the inset above).
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