Current status on the contribution of silica fibres to stellar interferometry

This paper reports on guided and integrated optics set-ups developed in our laboratory in the framework of aperture synthesis for astronomy. After summarising the function required to design a stellar interferometer, we propose guided components for these purposes. The implementation of these components is illustrated by two examples of interferometers with a view to using guided components as often as possible and testing an end-to-end imaging demonstrator.