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Fig. 1.

Block diagram of the SPHERE common path (CPI) up to the beam splitter vi.BS and the SPHERE visual channel. The blue color indicates exchangeable components, green are rotating components, and red components are only inserted for polarimetry. The ZIMPOL box is shown in detail in Fig. 2.
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