In order to provide as much publicity as possible, ESO makes available author-prepared versions of all contributions (papers, posters, etc.) of ESO authors that were presented at the SPIE conference on Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 1-6, 2012.

The final conference proceedings can be accessed through the SPIE Digital Library.

8444-54: J. Liske, P. Padovani & M. Kissler-Patig: Science with the re-baselined European Extremely Large Telescope
8444-69: M. Cayrel: E-ELT Optomechanics: Overview
8444-71: B. Sedghi, M. Dimmler & M. Müller: Active damping strategies for control of the E-ELT field stabilization mirror
8444-92: Richard Sramek, Koh-Ichiro Morita, Masahiro Sugimoto, Peter Napier, Maurizio Miccolis, Pavel Yagoubov, Denis Barkats, William Dent, Satoki Matsushita, Nicholas Whyborn, Shin'ichiro Asayama, Javier Marti Canales, Ravinder Bhatia, Eugene DuVall, Samantha Blair: ALMA system verification
8444-120: Paolo Ghiretti, Volker Heinz, Daniela Pollak & Jose Lagos: E-ELT project: Geotechnical investigation at Cerro Armazones
8444-145: Volker Heinz, Max Kraus, Eduardo Orellana: Installation and verification of high precision mechanics in concrete structures at the example of ALMA antenna interfaces
8444-196: A. Rakich: Using a laser tracker for active alignment on the Large Binocular Telescope

8445-0: F. Delplancke, J. Rajagopal, F. Malbet, S. Ridgway & F. Baron: Introduction to the SPIE conference "Optical and Infrared
Interferometry III"
8445-12: Pierre Haguenauer, Roberto Abuter, Luigi Andolfato, Jaime Alonso, Guillaume Blanchard, Jean-Philippe Berger, Pierre Bourget, Stéphane Brillant, Frédéric Derie, Françoise Delplancke, Nicola Di Lieto, Christophe Dupuy, Bruno Gilli, Philippe Gitton, Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Stéphane Guisard, Serge Guniat, Gerhard Hudepohl, Andreas Kaufer, Samuel Lévêque, Serge Ménardi, Antoine Mérand, Sébastien Morel, Isabelle Percheron, Than Phan Duc, Sébastien Poupar, Andres Ramirez, Claudio Reineiro, Sridhar Rengaswamy, Thomas Rivinius, Markus Schöller, Christian Schmid, Alex Segovia, Nicolas Schuhler, Guillermo Valdes, Willem-Jan de Wit & Markus Wittkowski: The Very Large Telescope Interferometer v2012+
8445-14: C. Schmid, R. Abuter, A. Merand, J. Sahlmann, J. Alonso, L. Andolfato, G. van Belle, F. Delplancke, F. Derie, N. Di Lieto, R. Frahm, Ph. Gitton, N. Gomesac, P. Haguenauer, B. Justen, S. Leveque, S. Menardi, S. Morel, A. Muller, T. Phan Duc, E. Pozna, A. Ramirez, N. Schuhler & D. Segransan: Status of PRIMA for the VLTI - heading to astrometry
8445-54: Antoine Merand, Fabien Patru, Jean-Philippe Berger, Isabelle Percheron & Poupar Sebastien: Fringe tracking performance monitoring: FINITO at VLTI
8445-75: S. Stefl, R. Parra & A. Lundgren: Long-term Trends in the Auxiliary Telescopes and ESO/APEX Pointing Models

8446-36: Caillier P., Accardo M., Adjali L., Anwand H., Bacon R., Boudon D., Brotons L., Capoani L., Daguisé E., Dupieux M., Dupuis C., François M., Glindemann A., Gojak D., Hansali G., Hahn T., Jarno A., Kelz A., Koehler C., Kosmalski J., Laurent F., Le Floch M., Lizon J.-L., Loupias M., Manescau A., Migniau J.E., Monstein C., Nicklas H., Parès L., Pécontal-Rousset A., Piqueras L., Reiss R., Remillieux A., Renault E., Rupprecht G., Streicher O., Stuik R., Valentin H., Vernet J., Weilbacher P. & Zins G.: The MUSE Project Face to Face with Reality
8446-48: S. Ramsay, M.Casali, N. Hubin, M.Kissler Patig, H.U.Käufl, J.-L. Lizon & J.Strasser: A Roadmap for the European ELT Instrument Suite
8446-67: Gaspare Lo Curto, Antonio Manescau, Gerardo Avila, Luca Pasquini, Tobias Wilken,Tilo Steinmetz, Ronald Holzwarth, Rafael Probst, Thomas Udem, Theodor W. Hänsch, Jonay I. González Hernández, Massimiliano Esposito, Rafael Rebolo, Bruno Canto Martins, Jose Renan de Medeiros: Achieving a few cm/sec calibration repeatability for high resolution spectrographs: the laser frequency comb on HARPS
8446-71: P. Amico, E. Marchetti, F. Pedichini, A. Baruffolo, B. Delabre, M. Duchateau, M. Ekinci, D. Fantinel, E. Fedrigo, G. Finger, C. Frank, R. Hofmann, P. Jolley, J. L. Lizon, M. Le Louarn, P-Y Madec, C. Soenke & H. Weisz: The design of ERIS for the VLT
8446-98: Roland Reiss, Sebastian Deiries, Jean-Louis Lizon & Gero Rupprecht: The MUSE Instrument Detector System
8446-119: Gerd Jakob, Jean-Louis Lizon: An experimental VLT cryo-cooler instrumentation vibration analysis
8446-125: J.L. Lizon, N. Haddad, R. Castillo: Optical bi-stable shutter development / improvement
8446-135: Florian Kerber, Thomas Rose, Arlette Chacón, Omar Cuevas, Harald Czekala, Reinhard Hanuschik, Yazan Momany, Julio Navarette, Richard R. Querel, Alain Smette, Mario van den Ancker, Michel Curé & David A. Naylor: A Water Vapour Monitor at Paranal Observatory
8446-192: J.L. Lizon, C. Dupuy, M. Accardo , R. Reiss, S. Deiries, R. Hinterschuster, T. Fechner, A. Kelz, S. Mudit, O.Streicher & P. Weilbacher: A series of detector system for MUSE
8446-215: Peter Hammersley, Hans Dekker, Fernando Selman, Paul Bristow, Pierre Bourget, Roland Brast, Roberto Castillo, Mark Downing, Cesar Enrique Garcia-Dabo Nicolas Haddad, Michael Hilker, Carlo Izzo, Jean-Louis Lizon, Christian Lucuix, Vincenzo Mainieri, bSteffen Mieske, Dan Popovic, Claudio Reinero, Marina Rejkuba, Chester Rojas, Ruben Sanchez –Janssen, Alain Smette, Josefina Urrutia Del Rio, Javier Valenzuela & Burkhard Wolff: The VIMOS upgrade programme
8446-217: J.L. Lizon, M. Accardo, Domingo Gojak, Roland Reiss, Lothar Kern: Vacuum and Cryogenic Sytem for the MUSE detectors
8446-226: Florence Laurent, Edgard Renault, Magali Loupias, Johan Kosmalski, Heiko Anwand, Roland Bacon, Didier Boudon, Patrick Caillier, Jean-Pierre Dubois, Eric Daguisé, Christophe Dupuy, Andreas Kelz, Jean-Louis Lizon, Harald Nicklas, Laurent Parès, Alban Remillieux, Walter Seifert, Hervé Valentin & Wenli Xu: MUSE Optical Alignment Procedure
8446-292:  M. Puech, H. Flores, Y.B. Yang, M. Rodrigues, T. Goncalves, F. Hammer & K. Disseau: Characterizing the red optical sky background fluctuations from narrow-band imaging
8446-297: Y.B. Yang, M. Puech, H. Flores, F. Hammer, M. Rodrigues & K. Disseau: Variation of the Near-IR sky continuum background from long-slit spectroscopy
8446-369: Gerardo Avila: FRD and scrambling properties of recent non-circular fibres
8446-370: Gerardo Avila, Carlos Guirao & Thomas Baader: High efficient inexpensive 2-slices image slicers

8447-05: P-Y Madec: Overview of deformable mirror technologies for adaptive optics and astronomy
8447-11: Markus Kasper: Adaptive optics for high contrast imaging
8447-17: Ronald Holzlöhner, Simon M. Rochester, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Dmitry Budker, Thomas Pfrommer & James M. Higbie: Simulations of Pulsed Sodium Laser Guide Stars — An Overview
8447-19: Robin Arsenault, Pierre-Yves Madec, Jerome Paufique, Paolo La Penna, Stefan Stroebele, Elise Vernet, Jean-Francois Pirard, Wolfgang Hackenberg, Harald Kuntschner, Lieselotte Jochum, Johann Kolb, Nicolas Muller, Miska Le Louarn, Paola Amico, Norbert Hubin, Jean-Louis Lizon, Rob Ridings, Jose A. Abad, Gert Fischer, Volker Heinz, Mario Kiekebusch, Javier Argomedo, Ralf Conzelmann, Sebastien Tordo, Rob Donaldson, Christian Soenke, Philippe Duhoux, Enrico Fedrigo, Bernard Delabre, Andrea Jost, Michel Duchateau, Mark Downing, Javier R. Moreno, Reinhold Dorn, Antonio Manescau, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Marco Quattri, Christophe Dupuy, Ivan M. Guidolin, Mauro Comin, Ronald Guzman, Bernard Buzzoni, Jutta Quentin, Steffan Lewis, Paul Jolley, Max Kraus & Thomas Pfrommer: ESO Adaptive Optics Facility Progress Report
8447-21: Julien H. V. Girard, Jared O'Neal, Dimitri Mawet, Markus Kasper, Grrard Zins, Benoit Neichel, Johann Kolb, Valentin Christiaens & Martin Tourneboeuf: Image quality and high contrast improvements on VLT/NACO
8447-22: Jorge Melnick, Enrico Marchetti & Paola Amico: Science with ESO's Multi-conjugate Adaptive-optics Demonstrator - MAD
8447-38: Lorenzo Pettazzi, Riccardo Muradore, Enrico Fedrigo, Richard Clare: On the rejection of vibrations in Adaptive Optics Systems
8447-98: Marcos Suárez Valles, Enrico Fedrigo, Robert H. Donaldson, Christian Soenke, Stefano Zampieri, Reynald Bourtembourg & Helmut Tischer: SPARTA for the VLT: status and plans
8447-115: S. Ströbele, P. La Penna, R. Arsenault, R.D. Conzelmann, B. Delabre, M. Duchateau, R. Dorn, E. Fedrigo, N. Hubin, J. Quentin, P. Jolley, M. Kiekebusch, J.P. Kirchbauer, B. Klein, J. Kolb, H. Kuntschner, M. Le Louarn, J.L. Lizon, P.-Y. Madec, L. Pettazzi, C. Soenke, S. Tordo, J. Vernet & R. Muradore: GALACSI System Design and Analysis
8447-116: J. Paufique, J. Argomedo, R. Arsenault, R. Conzelmann, R. Donaldson, N. Hubin, L. Jochum, A. Jost, M. Kiekebusch, J. Kolb, H. Kuntschner, M. Le Louarn, P-Y. Madec, R. Siebenmorgen & S. Tordo: Status of the GRAAL system development: very wide-field correction with 4 laser guide-stars
8447-132: Enrico Marchetti, Miska Le Louarn, Christian Soenke, Enrico Fedrigo, Pierre-Yves Madec & Norbert Hubin: ERIS adaptive optics system design
8447-199: M. Le Louarn, Richard Clare, Clémentine Béchet & Michel Tallon: Simulations of Adaptive Optics Systems for the E-ELT
8447-226: Elise Vernet, Marc Cayrel, Norbert Hubin, Michael Mueller, Roberto Biasi, Daniele Gallieni & Matteo Tintori: Specifications and design of the E-ELT M4 adaptive unit
8447-261: Douglas Summers, Don Carlos Abrams, Jure Skvarč, Paola Amico & Harald Kuntschner: A Decade of Operations with the Laser Traffic Control System; Paradigm Shift and Implied Development Directions

8448-01: Andreas Lundgren, Lars-Ake Nyman, Masao Saito, Baltasar Vila Vilaro, Gautier Mathys, Paola Andreani, John Hibbard, Sachiko K. Okumura, Ken'ichi Tatematsu, Bill Dent, Mark G. Rawlings, Eric Villard & Lewis Ball: ALMA - the first year of observations
8448-7: H. Kuntschner, P. Amico, J. Kolb, P.Y. Madec, R. Arsenault, M. Sarazin & D. Summers: Operational Concept of the VLT’s Adaptive Optics Facility and its instruments
8448-12: Florian Kerber, Hans Ulrich Käufl, Pedro Baksai, Danuta Dobrzycka, Gert Finger, Derek Ives, Gerd Jakob, Eric Lagadec, Lars Lundin, Dimitri Mawet, Leander Mehrgan, Margaret Moerchen, Yazan Momany, Vincent Moreau, Eric Pantin, Miguel Riquelme, Ralf Siebenmorgen, Armin Silber, Alain Smette, Julian Taylor, Mario van den Ancker, Lars Venema, Ueli Weilenmann & Irina Yegorova: VISIR Upgrade Overview and Status
8448-20: F. Primas, S. Marteau, L. E. Tacconi-Garman, V. Mainieri, M. Rejkuba & S. Mysore: DOME: operational metrics under one roof
8448-42: Fernando Salgado, Juan Pablo Haddad, Rolando Medina & Gerhard Hudepohl: Success of long term preventive maintenance on telescope subsystems using the example of the VLE Adapter-Rotators at the ESO Paranal Observatory
8448-63: Danuta Dobrzycka, Yazan Momany, Lars Lundin,  Ralf Siebenmorgen, Hans U. Kaeufl, Alain Smette, Florian Kerber & Mario Van Den Ancker: Long term performance of the VISIR/VLT instrument before the upgrade
8448-77: Stéphane Marteau, Serouche Rahimpour & John Lockhart: PROP: ESO's portal for reporting of operational problematics
8448-78: Uta Grothkopf & Silvia Meakins: The ESO Telescope Bibliography at your fingertips

8449-6: Ravinder Bhatia, Javier Martí, William Snow, Masahiro Sugimoto, Richard Sramek, Maurizio Miccolis, Koh-Ichiro Morita, Demián Arancibia, Andrea Araya, Shin’ichiro Asayama, Denis Barkats, Rodrigo Brito, William Brundage, Wes Grammer, Christoph Haupt, Herve Kurlandczyk, Norikazu Mizuno, Peter Napier, Eduardo Pizarro, Kamaljeet Saini, Gretchen Stahlman, Gianluca Verzichelli, Nick Whyborn & Pavel Yagoubov: System Engineering of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
8449-24: Bernhard Lopez, Rieks Jager, Nicholas D. Whyborn, Lewis B. G. Knee & Joseph P. McMullin: Assembly, Integration, and Verification (AIV) in ALMA: Series Processing of Array Elements

8450-61: D. Bonaccini Calia, I. Guidolin, A. Friedenauer, M. Hager, V. Karpov, T. Pfrommer, R. Holzlöhner, S. Lewis, W. Hackenberg, G. Lombardi, M. Centrone and F. Pedichini: The ESO transportable LGS Unit for measurements of the LGS photon return and other experiments
8450-126: Myriam Rodrigues, M. Cirasuolo, F. Hammer, F. Royer, C. Evans, M. Puech, H. Flores, I. Guinouard, Gianluca Li Causi, K. Disseau & Y. Yang: On sky test of sky subtraction methods for fiber-fed spectrographs
8450-196: Christophe Dupuy, Thomas Pfrommer & Domenico Bonaccini Calia: 4DAD, a device to align angularly and laterally a high power laser using a conventional sighting telescope as metrology
8450-205: P. Bourget, N. Schuhler, D. Mawet, P. Haguenauer, J. Girard & F. Gonte: Extinction controlled Adaptive Mask Coronagraph, Lyot and Phase
Mask dual concept for wide extinction area

8451-44: A.Dobrzycki, C.Da Rocha, I.Vera, M.Vuong, T.Bierwirth, V.Forchi, N.Fourniol, C.Moins & S.Zampieri: ESO archive data and metadata model
8451-46: D. Dorigo, B. Amarand, T. Bierwirth, Y. Jung, P. Santos, F. Sogni & I. Vera: Evolution of the Phase 2 Preparation and Observation Tools at ESO
8451-111: Eszter Pozna: Evolution of the top level control software of astronomical instruments at ESO
8451-134: Stefan Sandrock, Nicola Di Lieto, Lorenzo Pettazzi & Toomas Erm: Design and implementation of a general main axis controller for the ESO telescopes

8452-5: Giorgio Siringo, Attila Kovacs, Ernst Kreysa, Frederic Schuller, Axel Weiss, Rolf Guesten, Talayeh Hezareh, Karl M. Menten, Helmut Wiesemeyer,
Michael Dumke, Francisco Montenegro & Rodrigo Parra: First results of the polarimeter for the Large APEX Bolometer Camera (LABOCA)
8452-65: Frederic Schuller: BoA: a versatile software for bolometer data reduction
8452-109: S. Asayama, N. Whyborn, P. Yagoubov: ALMA SIS mixer optimization for stable operation

8453-12: Mark Downing, Johann Kolb, Philippe Balard, Bart Dierickx, Arnaud Defernez, Benoit Dupont, Philippe Feautrier, Gert Finger, Martin Fryer, Jean-Luc Gach, Christian Guillaume, Norbert Hubin, Olaf Iwert, Paul Jerram, Paul Jorden, Andrew Pike, Jerome Pratlong, Javier Reyes, Eric Stadler & Andrew Walker: Backside-Illuminated, high QE, 3e- RoN, fast 700fps, 1760x1680 pixels CMOS Imager for AO with highly parallel readout
8453-38: Derek Ives, Gert Finger, Gerd Jakob, Siegfried Eschbaumer, Leander Mehrgan, Manfred Meyer & Joerg Stegmeier: AQUARIUS: the next generation mid-IR detector for ground based astronomy
8453-68: Olaf Iwert, David Ouellette, Michael Lesser & Bernard Delabre: First results from a novel curving process for large area scientific imagers