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Figure 10.1: The logical link between past or engaged R&D and instruments organized according to the three
families: adaptive optics, interferometry, detectors and cameras. The logics described in the text is made visible:
for instance, how NAOS building prepared us to promoting the VLT-PF, the VLT-PF pre-studies prepared those
on EPICS for an ELT; the same applies with AMBER now followed by VITRUV, which in turn benefits from
the success of IONIC-type R&D. In addition, related R&D activities are grouped within boxes to make their
connection clear. It must be emphasized that the various projects shown belong to only three different families,
each with R&D and instrumentation, that are largely focused on decisive progress in eitheir very high contrast
imaging, imaging capabilities or very high angular resolution observations
• providing a 2 µm 3-beams spectro-imager (AMBER) to ESO and use the experience of it to study and
promote a faster imager (VITRUV) for the VLTI.
It is very satisfying to notice and recognize that all of these goals, presented in the previous LAOG evaluation,
have been met as can be seen in the next chapter.
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