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One of the remaining limitation of the precise radial velocity instruments is the imperfect scrambling produced by the circular fibers. We present here experimental studies on new optical fibers aiming at an improvement of the scrambling they provide. New fibers shapes were tested: square and octagonal. Measurements have been performed of the scrambling performances of these fibers in the near field as well FRD measurements. These fibers show extremely promising performances in the near field scrambling: an improvement of a factor 5 to 10 compared to the circular fiber. They however show some strange behavior in the far field that need to be understood.
Chazelas et al. (Tue,) studied this question.