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AOF

THE VLT ADAPTIVE OPTICS FACILITY
SUMMARY:

AOF Overview
The DSM: the core of the AOF

DSM Reference Body
Mirror Unit manufacturing
DSM Thin Shell
                           AOF
DSM Positioning System and Manufacturing



TOPTICA-MPB 20 W Laser Concept
Launch Telescope System
GALACSI: AO Module for MUSE
GALACSI Design
MUSE Spectrograph
GRAAL: GLAO Module for HAWK-I
GRAAL Design and Performances
GRAAL Assembly
ASSIST: DSM Testbed
ASSIST Design
WFS Detectors and Electronics
SPARTA: Standard Platform for Adaptive Optics Real Time Applications
Milestones
Organization Chart
AOF:       ADAPTIVE OPTICS FACILITY:
         DSM:       DEFORMABLE SECONDARY MIRROR
         4 LGSF:    4 LASER GUIDE STAR FACILITY
         GALACSI:   Ground Atmospheric Layer Adaptive Corrector for
                    Spectroscopic Imaging
         MUSE:      Multi-Unit Spectrocscopic Explorer
         GRAAL:     GRound layer Adaptive optics Assisted by Lasers
         HAWK-I:    High Acuity, Wide field K-band Imaging
         ASSIST:    Adaptive Secondary Simulator and Instrument
                    Testbed
         SPARTA:    Standard Platform for Adaptive optics Real Time
                    Applications


                   OVERVIEW
                 DSM
AOF                                                  4LGSF

         GRAAL                                               GALACSI
ASSIST                                                          +
                                                              MUSE
THE DSM: THE CORE OF AOF
                                                                    The thin shell mirror has a
                                                                  diameter of 1120 mm, 2 mm
                                                                 thickness, about 9 kg weight.
                                                                 1170 voice-coil actuators are
                                               Hexapod for     acting on magnets glued on the
                                               centering and
                                               fine focusing    back face of the shell (below:
                                                                            actuators pattern).
The cold-       M2 unit is composed by an      Cold Plate,
                                               heat
plate plus         hexapod, a cold plate, a    evacuation
the back-         backplate and a thin shell   and actuator
plate.       mirror. The mirror positioning    attachment
              is obtained with an hexapod.
             The actuators are attached to     Reference
                a cold plate connected to a    body
             reference body, on which the
             thin shell is leaning when not    Thin Shell
                                  operative.
HUB
                  manufacturi
                  ng on going.




                            Complete
DSM POSITIONING           verification,
                   including full load
                      test in the final
SYSTEM               configuration, of
                    all the hexapods

MANUFACTURING            at ADS (May
                                 2011)




                                                  All the
                  Hexapod                 Hexapod after
                  actuator                manufacturing
                  prototype               and functional
                  during                       testing at
                  functional               ADS (March
                  test                            2011).
The magnets           The cold plate has
               template            been manufactured
               manufacture           and metrologically
               d at ADS, for             checked with a
               very                computer controlled
               accurate             machine at ADS. It
               gluing of the         supports the 1170
               magnets on          magnetic actuators,
               the back           provides a heat sink
               face of the      for the heat dissipated
               thin shell.       on the actuators coils
                                           and makes a
                                  mechanical interface
                                     for the backplate..




DSM BACKPLATE AND ACTUATORS
               Right: “mass”     Below: D-45 prototype
               production of       test with and without
               electronics        thin shell: Electronics      The thin shell is retained at its central hole by a dedicated titanium
               and actuators     test, actuator coil test,        and steel bound (membrane), designed in order to prevent only
               at Microgate..    capacitive sensor test.     lateral displacement, without affecting the magnetic actuator action.
Detail of      The reference body at ADS, after
the DSM            silver coating and capacitive
ZERODUR          sensors etching (March 2011).
light                    The total weight of the
weighted                    component is 47 kg.
reference
body back
side at the
end of
manufactur
ing at
SESO
(August
2010).




                                                      REFERENCE
                                                           BODY




                Final inspection of the reference
               body at SESO. The unit is ready
              for the metal coating deposition on
               the internal sides of the holes, for
                     the capacitive sensor.
The M2 Zerodur                    Hextec slumped
          Test Matrix                     engineering shell,
          produced by                         to be used for
          REOSC for the                       electromechal
          VLT, inside the                 testing of the M2-
          barrel (mount)                          DSM unit.
          manufactured for
          the M2 Test matrix
          by AOF. The test
          matrix is being
          inserted into the
          barrel with a
          custom designed
          and fabricated
          handling tool (April
          2007).




                                                                          Hextec slumped engineering shell
DSM THIN SHELL                                                   Schott blank for SAGEM (first science shell)

                                 Left: first thin science
                                 shell during the final
                                 phase of the convex side
                                 polishing at SAGEM
                                 (inspection, February
                                 2010). The Zerodur
                                 blank (Schott) grinding
                                 started in December
                                 2009. In February 2011
                                 the thickness was about
                                 2.8 mm.


                                     Right: The thin shell in
                                             February 2011 at
                                           SAGEM. In March
                                                2011 the goal
                                     thickness of 2 mm has
                                       been reached: it’s the
                                      first time in Europe for
                                               a curved shell.
The TOPTICA-

TOPTICA-MPB                                                                                                                                                MPB design
                                                                                                                                                           source is very
                                                                                                                                                           compact, and will

20 W LASER CONCEPT                                                                                                                                         be located next to
                                                                                                                                                           the launching
                                                                                                                                                           telescope ,
                                                                                                                                                           without the need
                                                                                                                                                           of a dedicated
The TOPTICA-MPB design converts the infrared light generated by two                                                                                        clean room.
coherently combined Raman Fibre Amplifiers into the yellow spectral region by
Second Harmonic Generation (SHG): two 18 W beams at 1178 nm are
combined with Coherent Beam Combination (CBC) for 20 W beam generation
at 589 nm. With this approach more than 20W at 589 nm are achieved.

                                                                             COHERENT 
                                                                               BEAM 
                                                                           COMBINATION 
                                                                               MODULE


 1178 nm                                                                                      SECOND               589 nm 
   SEED                                                                                      HARMONIC              output
  LASER                                                                                     GENERATION                                                                                SHG prototype.
                                                                                                                                                                                    Above: open top
                                                                                                                                                                                view. Below: 22.6 W
                                                                                                                                                                                 output power @589
                                           2×18 W  POLARIZATION MAINTAINING                                                                                                            nm have been
                                          RAMAN FIBER AMPLIFICATION MODULES                                                                                                            demonstrated.


                                                         589nm power vs. input 1178nm power
                                 25
   SHG output power 589nm, (W)




                                 20



                                 15

                                                                                                                              The laser designs is being
                                 10
                                                                                                                              developed by TOPTICA and
                                                                                                                              MPB as part of the ESO
                                                                                                                              LGSF laser system.
                                  5
                                                                                in black: higher input coupler reflectivity   TOPTICA concept is based
                                                                                in red: lower input coupler reflectivity
                                                                                                                              on Raman Fiber
                                                                                                                              Amplification (RFAM).
                                  0                                                                                           Left: plot of the output
                                      0           5          10          15          20         25         30         35      power @589 nm, as a
                                                                  1178nm input power, (W )                                    function of the total RFAM
                                                                                                                              power.
Above, from left to right: scheme of the optical tube assembly;
                                                             3-D model oone entire LTS, including Laser Head, Beam
LAUNCH                                                     Control Diagnostic System (BCSD), Optical Tube Assembly,
                                                            on its base plate; the LTS inside its enclosure; the four LTS
                                                                                                   units on the telescope.

TELESCOPE
SYSTEM                                                                           Below: the OTA structure at the end of
                                                                                 manufacturing at TNO (January 2011).
            Above: testing of         The LTS optical
            coating samples at                system is
            focus under high        designed in order
            laser power              to expandt the 3
            illumination (March    mm diameter 589
            2010)                      nm wavelength
                                      laser beam to a
                                           larger beam
                                    producing a laser
                                     spot of about 30
                                          cm at 90 km
            The main OTA
                                       height. Four of
            L2 during
                                   these units will be
            manufacturing at
                                      mounted on the
            TNO (January
                                  telescope azimutal
            2011). L2 is a 50
                                    platform, in order
            mm thick, 300
                                        to create the 4
            mm diameter
                                                  LGS.
            aspherical lens.
GALACSI goal is to        Field of view      1’  WFM (7.5” NFM)
  concentrate the energy of a
                                     Instrument         Muse (VIS 3D‐spectrograph)
 Point Spread Function (PSF)
     over a large FoV (1’) for a     Modes              GLAO, LTAO
      visible-light integral field
                                                        ×2 in ensquared energy (central pixel), 
  spectrograph (MUSE: Multi          Performance GLAO
Unit Spectrographic Explorer),
                                                        95% sky coverage
          a second generation        Performance LTAO   Strehl Ratio >5% @0.65µm
           instrument for VLT.
                                                        4 LGS L3‐CCD (1 e‐ Read out Noise)
Here: 3-D model of GALACSI
                                     WFS                1 TT L3‐CCD
(left) on the Nasmyth platform                          1 TT IR
             with MUSE (right).      Loop frequency     = 1 kHz
                                     SPARTA             HW=GRAAL
                                                        4 stars ∅2’/∅20”
                                     4LGSF
                                                        LTAO drives LGS power
                                     ASSIST             Full FoV
                                     Status             FDR passed



GALACSI: AO MODULE FOR MUSE


      GALACSI will operate in
       two modes: Wide Field
          Mode (WFM, seeing
        reducer over 1’ FoV at
          750 nm) and Narrow
      Field Mode (NFM, SR ≅
         6% at 650 nm, in 7.5”
        FoV). Here is shown a
      typical simulation of the
         PSF as expected with
           GALACSI in NFM.
Left: 3D GALACSI optical                Above: the
            scheme, as view from                  camera is the
            MUSE.                                  same as for
                                                      GRAAL.

GALACSI DESIGN                                     Right: WFS
                                                  detector and
                                                   electronics.
                                                                         Pyramid optical beam splitting of the 4 laser
                                                                                        guide stars onto the 4 WFS.




                                                              COMMISSIONING                      LGS PATH 4
                                                               CAMERA PATH
                                       VLT

                                                                               LGS PATH 1



                   Left: 3-D opto-
             mechanical design of
                                                                                           LGS PATH 2
              GALACSI: the LGS
                   path module is
                                       VISIBLE
             shown in more detail      TIP-TILT
               enlarged above on                                                                  LGS PATH 3
                                        PATH                                  MUSE
                          the right.



                                                                    CALIBRATION
                                                                       PATH
Below: the the GALACSI support structure
                                                 at ESO (March 2011) being alignmed.




                                                                                                           Above: the GALACSI Field Selector on a
Above: GALACSI almost completely assembled,
                                                                                                              test setup: the Field Selector, source
during testing at ESO.Except the LGS wavefront
                                                                                                           module, Lamp housing/fibre injection and
measuring path, GALACSI is already equipped
                                                                                                                       motor controllers are in use.
with all the optics.




           GALACSI                                                                                         GROWTH


                                                                                              The light
                                                                                                 source
                                                                                            module for
                                                                                                     the
                                                                                            calibration.
Above: the first of the 3D spectrographs, ready after extensive
                                                                                                                           testing at the CRAL optical laboratory.
                                                                                                  Left: the large MUSE cryogenic system which provides cooling
                                                                                                         and vacuum for the 24 MUSE detectors (-130° C ), in the
                                                                                                                                integration and test phase at ESO




MUSESPECTROGRAPH
          MUSE visible integral field spectrograph splits the GALACSI adaptive optics
          corrected field of view in 24 sub-fields. Each of these sub-fields is fed into a
          spectrograph (Integral Field Unit, IFU). An image slicer in front of each IFU
          serves as entrance slit, thus producing a spatially resolved spectrum of the
          full sub-field.
          MUSE features a Wide Field Mode (WFM) with a 1×1 arcmin field of view
          and a Narrow Field Mode (NFM) with a 7.5×7.5 arcsec field of view,
          providing simultaneous spectra of numerous adjacent regions in the sky.
          A fore-optics tower between the telescope focus and the IFUs hosts a field
          de-rotator, an ADC, the shutter, the field splitting optics and a plate scale
          changer. A calibration unit is close to the telescope focus.
          MUSE total weight is more than 7 tons.
                                                                                                  Above: one of the 24 16-million pixel detectors to be used) in
                                                                                                       MUSE. MUSE combines 24 spectrographs (460-930 nm
                                                                                              wavelength) in order to be able to probe a field of view as large as
                                                                                                                                                         possible.




                                                                                             Left: an image slicer, composed of two optical elements: the image
                                                                                             dissector array (in front) is made of 48 thin (0.9 mm) off-axis
                                                                                             spherical mirrors and the focusing mirror array is made of 48 round
                                                                                             off-axis spherical mirrors. Image slicers, a new technology,
                                                                                             maintain high optical efficiency, and MUSE is using the largest
                                                                                             image slicers ever used in astronomy. Each spectrograph is
                                                                                             equipped with 4000 x 4000 pixel detectors — the largest detectors
                                                                                             used at ESO so far.
HAWK-I FoV                 NASMYTH INTERFACE FLANGE
                                                                                              GRAAL is a seeing                 Open view
                                                                                              improver ground layer             of GRAAL
                                                                                              adaptive optics                      with the
                                                                                              system, assisted by 4               HAWK-I
                                                                                              LGS, with science                   adapter.
                                                                                              FoV is of 7.5” square,
                                                                                              for feeding the
                                                                                              cryogenic NIR imager
                                                                                              HAWK-I.

     GRAAL SPACE
      ENVELOPE
                                                                   HAWK-I

                                                                                                     GRAAL with HAWK-I on the Nasmyth
                                                                                               platform. Hawk-I is an already existing NIR
                                                                                                         wide field imager (7.5’×7.5’ FoV).

A view cut through the median plane of the AO system shows the limited
available space.


Exploded view of GRAAL mechanical structure: the bearing is designed for
150Nm friction/80kg, the torque drive for 500Nm nominal/70kg. The cable-
                                                                                                                                              GRAAL: GLAO
guide system weight is 110 kg, the aluminium structure 75 kg and the steel
structure 50 kg. GRAAL total weight is 950 kg (about 2900 kg with HAWK-I).                                                                    MODULE FOR
                                                                         Hawk‐I shutter
                                                                                                                                                   HAWK-I
                                                        Main structure
                        NGS‐TT sensor 
                          assembly
                                             Elect. box                     Elect. box


      LGS trombone
    LGS WFS assembly                                                                                GRAAL is compact: in the simulation
                         Torque drive                  Steel                                      picture of the Nasmyth platform (on the
                                                     structure                                          right), the volume attached to the
                                                                                                telescope adapter-rotator remains nearly
                                              Bearing            Counterweight                   the same as before GRAAL installation.
                   Steel flange
                                                                                                GRAAL is tinted in red and yellow, and is
                                                                                                      in its integration configuration. One
                                                                                                electronics cabinet (not represented) lies
                                                                                                on the Nasmyth platform, another one on
                                                       Maintenance and 
                     Cable guide                        Commissioning                                                 the azimuth platform.
                       system                             assembly
GRAAL main
                                 MAINTENANCE                                      assembly
                                     AND
                                COMMISSIONING                             descriptive view.
                                     PATH
                                                                                  The main
                                                                             assembly has
      LASER                                                                been designed
       PATH
                                                           TIP-TILT         as a plug-and-
                                                         CORRECTION
                                                            PATH
                                                                               play unit: no
                                                                            modification of
                                                                                any Hawk-I
                                                                            internal part is
                                                HAWK-I                   necessary during
                                                                           the installation.
                                                                                The design
                                                                               concept has
VLT
                                                                          been developed
                                                                                   at ESO.



The complexity of the optical design relies in the tight
arrangement of GRAAL optics in the space available between
the telescope adapter and Hawk-I, requiring some optics to be
located in a complex 3-D geometry. SESO started the
manufacturing of the optics in June ’09.                              GRAAL DESIGN AND PERFORMANCES
Field of view           7.5’ (10” MCM)
instrument              Hawk‐I (IR imager)
modes                   GLAO, SCAO

Performance GLAO        x1.7 (central pixel), 95% sky coverage                    GRAAL is
                                                                                expected to
                                                                            provide about a
Performance SCAO        (80% in K‐band)                                           factor 2 of
                        4 LGS L3‐CCD (1 e‐ Read out Noise)                  improvement in
                                                                            the occurrence
WFS                     1 TT L3‐CCD                                         of good images
                        1 NGS L3‐CCD                                                 (<0.4”).
                                                                         Seeing reducer at
Loop frequency          ≥ 700 Hz                                           60% occurrence
SPARTA                  HW=GALACSI                                        is a factor 0.8 (in
                                                                                    K-band).
4LGSF                   4 stars Ø12’/‐                                      Improvement is
ASSIST                  Limited FoV                                        expected for all
                                                                         seeing conditions
                        Detailed design, sub‐contracted main 
Status                                                                                          K-band diameter of 50% EE (asec)
                        assembly
Left: WFS
                                                             assembling
                                                             Left:
                                                             cooling
                                                             system;
                                                             right with
                                                             electronics.




Above and below: tests of the optics at SESO



                                                                                   Above: from bottom left, clockwise:
                                                                                   TT unit, LGS calibration assembly,
                                                                                          MCM lens (February 2011).



                                                                            Below: during assembly of the the rotating
                                                                                     frame at NTE (September 2010)




Below: one of the LGS pick-up arm mounted on
its Physik-Instrumente translator, installed
inside the GRAAL rotating flange at NTE..




                                               GRAAL FINAL
                                                TESTS …
GRAAL mechanical structure has been assembled in the
                                                  ESO-Garching integration hall in June 2011. The
                                             mechanics is already mounted and working, and optics are
                                             ready for integration. GRAAL will be the first instrument to
                                              be tested on ASSIST. GRAAL tests at ESO will last until
                                                                     end of 2012.




Above: GALACSI (front) and GRAAL (back) in
the ESO-Garching integration hall.

Below: GRAAL mechanical structure fully
                                                                                                            Above: enlargement of the central part of
integrated. The optics are missing.
                                                                                                            GRAAL mechanical structure, front view.

                                                                                                            Below: the same part, view from the rear
                                                                                                             side during a special progress meeting




                                             … AND NOW AT
                                                 ESO
3-D view of
ASSIST
assembly
without the
cover, with the
DSM module
and GALACSI
separated from
the adapter.
The external
dimensions are
about 4.5 m×4
m×3.5 m.




                                      ASSIST IS THE OPTICAL FACILITY DESIGNED FOR TESTING
                                      AND CHARACTERISING THE DSM, TOGETHER WITH GRAAL

ASSIST: DSM TEST BED                  AND GALACSI, BEFORE INSTALLATION AT PARANAL. IT WILL
                                      BE FIRST INSTALLED AT GARCHING AND THEN SENT TO
                                      PARANAL TO AID THE DSM INSTALLATION.


                                        ASSIST optical design: AM1 and AM2: ASSIST mirrors; DSM: Deformable
                                           Secondary Mirror; FM: Folding mirror; SSTG: Star Simulator Turbulent
                                        Generator; VFS: VLT Focus Simulator. The NGS and LGS (GALACSI and
                            GALACSI               GRAAL) sources are simulated by the Source Injection module.


                  ADAPTER



DSM

AM2




           AM1
AM1 spherical
               polishing
               started at end
               of September
               2009. Left:
               carefully
               checking the
               mirror after
               final aspherical
               polishing at
               AMOS
               (February
               2011).


                                   Above: microscopic measurement of the rougness.
                                     Rgiht: the final testing of AM1 surface implies a
                                            complex interferometric setup including a
                                     Computer Generated Hologram mask for taking
                                                          care of its aspherical shape.




ASSIST AM1 PRIMARY MIRROR
                                      The final specifications on the whole AM1 surface
                                        are less than 300 nm RMS on the whole useful
                                   diameter (1650 mm), up to less than 10 nm RMS for
                                                   spatial scales smaller than 100 mm.
                                  AM1, an
                                  aspherical f/1
                                  mirror, with1.7 m,
                                  diameter, made
                                  of Zerodur, is the
                                  most critical
                                  component of
                                  ASSIST.

                                  On the left: AM1
                                  is in the coating
                                  chamber at Calar
                                  Alto Observatory
                                  (April 2011), after                                        SPECS
                                  final protected                                         MEASURED
                                  aluminum
                                  coating.
Left: AM2
polishing and
testing at NOVA
optical
laboratory at
ASTRON (June
2010): AM2 is
an aspherical,
140 mm
diameter mirror,
which surface
quality is very
critical for
allowing GRAAL
and GALACSI
testing with
ASSIST.


                               Above: full assembling of the ASSIST main structure
                          mechanics at Boseenkool (NL) (February 2011). Left: the
    Right: the         tower before enclosure. Right: with enclosure. On top of the
  LGS sources        tower the dummy loads simulating the DSM weight are visible.
   of ASSIST.

                     ASSIST MANUFACTURING
Left: the
                           Below: the frame allowing Phase Screen exchange and
external
                        rotation. This is part of the Star Simulator and Turbulence
modules during
                          Generator module (SSTG). The Phase Screens allow to
final testing at
                     simulate a seeing and turbulence profile including coherence.
Winlight:
clockwise, from
upper left: the
frong group,
FM4, the source
group, VL12.




   Right: one of
 the first Phase
        Screens
   produced by
    SILIOS: the
  phase map is
        visible in
  transparence
   on the glass.
AM1 in its         Right:
cell and         AM2 in its
FM1                spider
spider
                     Center
                       right:
       Right:       internal
  alignment      view from
       of the        the top
       optics




                   ASSIST INTEGRATION AT ESO
     with the
         site
  telescope


Left:
mechanical
structure
assembling

   Right: the
        whole
    structure
 assembled
         (June
       2011):
          DSM
        tower,
       Shack-
  Hartmann
  tower and
      adaptor
    ring. The
 total height
      is more
   than 5 m.




                      Right:
                   centered
Left: 400          reflected
kg AM1           rings from
handling                AM2
CCD 220:
240×240
pixels,
standard
silicon
8 EM
amplified
outputs up to
15 Mpix/sec,
1400
frames/sec.


                Analog Front-End
                     Boards




                                                                               WFS camera with OCAM clock board, Hermetic
                                                                          connectors (power entry, Peltier control, temperature
                                             Digital Control             sensing, alarms), Fiber interface (4 duplex links, 3.125
                                           Electronics Boards
                                                                        Gb/s per link = 12 Gb/s, Connection to NGC back-end,
                The WFS camera is very compact                         Connection to RTC), cooling system prototype (pressure
                168×240×75 mm. Weight: 3.5kg                                                                     level of 20 bar)




                                                         ELECTRONICS
                                                                       CCD 220 thermal model with heat sink design: cryogenic
                                                                       tests are satisfactory (up to required -45°C). Water pipes
                                                                        used for cooling are located on two opposite sides of the
                                                                       heat sink. Heat sink is meshed here in dark blue, water is
                                                                                                                  meshed in blue.




OCam Test
Camera
 part of
Opticon
JRA2 FP6
technology
transfer        WFS DETECTORS                            and
expected
soon
duplications
for ESO and
Grantecan.
SUPERVISOR
User and Engineering Interface                  High End Intel CPU / Multi-core / Multi-
Real Time Data Display                                              CPU, Linux based
Standard hardware                                       Industry standard libraries and
Rich test tool suite                               middleware, commercial (40kE) and
Full VLT SW compatible via gateways                       open source (CORBA/DDS)
                                                      Modular, scalable, fully reusable



                                                Standard Platform for

SPARTA                                          Adaptive optics Real Time
                                                Applications


                                                RTC box (~200k€/system):                                            SPARTA is a highly scalable hardware and software platform for adaptive optics
                 GB Ethernet Switch             hard real-time system to drive the AO                           real-time computers providing very low latency together with high throughput. All 2nd
                                                control loops; can receive data from                           generation AO instruments (including GRAAL and GALACSI) will be equipped with a
                                                multiple sensors (4+1 for AOF) and can                                                                                       SPARTA RTC system.
                                                control multiple mirrors (1+4 for AOF) at
                                                high speed (1 KHz for AOF) with
                                                extremely low jitter and very low latency.
                                                Fully software reconfigurable to support
                                      RTC box   multiple applications (GRAAL HAWK-I
                                                and GCM).
                                                High-tech crate, fully EMI tested, active
                                                protection.
                                                                                             REAL-TIME BOX



                                                Supervisor (~20k€/system):
                                                High-througput, high-performance,
                                                parallel soft real-time system. Controls
                                                the real-time box, implements the AO                         Multi-technology Real-Time Box: DSP + FPGA + CPU
                                                “business logic”, handles                                    Very low total latency (<200us) with FPGAs managing real time communication
                                                computational intensive tasks like                           DSPs for floating point operations, CPUs for monitoring and idle-time control.
              Co-processing cluster             performance estimation, loop                                 Modular, upgradeable, scalable, object oriented, all built with COTS components
                                                optimization, atmospheric statistics,                        High Performance WPU (60kE, <1us latency), parallel reconstructor
                                                calibration.                                                 Serial I/O, long range fibre interface, 2.5 Gb/s (sFPDP)
CDR        PDR                FDR              ARR        FAT        PAE        PAC
MILESTONES

             ASSIST                Oct.07          30.06.09             2Q11       3Q11       2Q12


              DSM                                  18.12.07            24.09.09   Apr.’11     4Q12


             GRAAL      Sept.’05   Mar.07          10.03.09             2Q11       4Q12       2Q13
                          KO                                                                             4Q14
             GALACSI    Feb.’06    Feb.08     10.02.09    16.06.09      2Q11       2Q13       4Q13


              4LGSF                30.09.09         3.02.11             2Q11        N/A       2Q13

                                                                                   4Q11
             AOF Sys.              24.04.08        29.04.10              N/A
                                                                                  (TRR)
                                                                                              4Q13

                                                                                             1Q12         3Q12
             UT4 Upg.   29.04.10     N/A               2Q11              N/A        N/A
                                                                                             PhaseI      PhaseII

              MUSE                            Dec.07          Mar.09     N/A                  2Q12       (2Q13)

                                                                                   2Q11       4Q13
             SPARTA                Jun.07          Sept. 08              N/A
                                                                                  (SPHERE)   (GALACSI)
                                                                                                          N/A
ORGANIZATION CHART                                                                                                           Directorate – A. Russell
                                                                                                                               Div. Head – M. Casali
                     Programme Office
                           (Head)                                                Project Manager
                                                                                                                             Steering Committee
                     Project Control1: J.                                          R. Arsenault
                          Strasser                                                                                      M.Casali, R.Tamai, S.Stanghellini,
                                               Project Control2                                                         U.Weilenman, L.Pasquini, N.Hubin
                       Quality: G. Igl
                                                 L. Jochum
                                                                    Project Scientist           System Eng.
                                                                     H. Kuntschner              P.-Y. Madec



                             Analysis               GALACSI                                                                UT4 Upgrade            2nd Gen. M2-
                                                    Manager               GRAAL Manager            4LGSF Manager                                  Unit Manager
                                                                                                                             Manager
                         System Engineer                                    J. Paufique            W. Hackenberg
                                                  S. Stroebele                                                              J.-F. Pirard            E. Vernet
                           P.-Y. Madec
                                                                                                      System Eng.
                                                      Inst. Control             Inst. Control
                               Simulations                                                            D. Bonaccini-                                 2nd Gen. M2-Unit
                                                      M. Duchateau                 A. Jost                                                              Contract
                                                                                                          Calia
                               M. Le Louarn                                                                                                             E.Vernet
                                                                                                                                    UT4
                                                         Optics                    Optics              Inst. Control          Implementaion
                                 Interfaces            B. Delabre                B. Delabre             I. Guidolin             J.-F. Pirard             M2-LCU
                                P.-Y. Madec                                                                                                             P. Duhoux
                                                       Mechanics                 Mechanics             Mechanics                 Comm.
                              System Tests &         R. Conzelmann             R. Conzelmann           R. Guzman               J.-F. Pirard
                               Calibrations                                                                                                          DSM Maint. SW
                                  J. Kolb                                                                                                              P. Duhoux
                                                     Software (OS)             GMA Contract             Software
                               ASSIST Test           M. Kiekebusch              J. Paufique             M. Comin
                             Bench Agreement
                               P. LaPenna                                                               Opt. Tube
                                                      Software/RTC
                                                                               Software (OS)        Assembly Contract
                                                       C. Soenke
                                  AOF AIT                                      M. Kiekebusch            M. Quattri
                                  S. Tordo
                                                           AIT                                       Lasers Contract
                                                                               Software/RTC
                                                        S. Tordo                                      P.-Y. Madec
                                                                               R. Donaldson
                                   Safety
                                P.-Y. Madec
                                                                                     AIT                   AIT                                    1Finance control
                                                                                  S. Tordo              C. Dupuy                                  2Project planning control
Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy                                  ESO
 
    http://www.astro-opticon.org/
                                                                                         European Organisation
    Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek
    http://www.tno.nl/                                                                   for Astronomical
    Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor de Astronomie                                       Research in the
    http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/nova/
                                                                                         Southern Hemisphere
    Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
    http://www.inaf.it/

    Sterrewacht Leiden
    http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/

    Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems
    http://www.amos.be/
    Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille
    http://www.oamp.fr/infoglueDeliverLive/www/+LAM
    FASORtronics
    http://www.fasortronics.com/FASORtronics/FASORtronics_LLC.html
    Societé Européenne de Systèmes Optiques
    http://www.seso.com/uk/
    Sagem
    http://sagem-ds.com/
    MUSE consortium
    http://muse.univ-lyon1.fr/http://sagem-ds.com/
    Hextec
    http://www.hextek.com/                                                    AOF Industrial Contractors & Partners
    ADS International
    http://www.ads-int.com/
    Microgate Engineering
    http://www.microgate.it/engineering/default.asp
    Schott
    http://www.schott.com/
                                                                                         Calar Alto Observatory
    Winlight Optical System
                                                                                         http://www.caha.es/
    http://www.winlight-system.com/
    SILIOS Technologies                                                                  Machinenfabriek Boessenkoo bv
    http://www.silios.com/                                                               http://www.boessenkool.com/

    Array Electronics                                                                    JDSU
    http://www.array-electronics.com/                                                    http://www.jdsu.com/en-us/Pages/Home.aspx

    e2v                                                                                  Precision Optics Gera
    http://www.e2v.com/                                                                  http://www.pog.eu/en/products_os_00.html
    NTE                                                                                  SUSS MicroTec
    http://www.nte.es/                                                                   http://www.suss.com/
    Toptica Photonics                                                                    mso jena Mikroschichtoptik GmbH
    http://www.toptica.com/                                                              http://www.suss.com/
    MPB Communications Inc.                                                              Physik Instrumente Piezo nano positioning
    http://www.mpbc.ca/                                                                  http://www.physikinstrumente.de/de/index.php
ESO
                                                                          European Organisation
                                                                            for Astronomical
                                                                            Research in the
                                                                          Southern Hemisphere




      P. Amico, R. Arsenault, D. Bonaccini-Calia, B. Buzzoni, M. Comin, R. Conzelmann, B. Delabre, R. Donaldson, M. Duchateau, P. Duhoux, C. Dupuy, E. Fedrigo, I. Guidolin,
R. Guzman Collazos, W. Hackenberg, G. Hess, N. Hubin, L. Jochum, P. Jolley, A. Jost, P. Jolley, L. Kern, M. Kiekebusch, J. Kolb, H. Kuntschner, P. La Penna, M. Le Louarn, J.-L. Lizon,
                                P.-Y. Madec, A. Manescau, J. Paufique, J.-F. Pirard, M. Quattri, J. Quentin, C. Soenke, S. Stroebele, S. Tordo, E. Vernet

                                                                       Preparation & Editing: P. La Penna, ESO

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Aof booklet

  • 1. AOF THE VLT ADAPTIVE OPTICS FACILITY
  • 2. SUMMARY: AOF Overview The DSM: the core of the AOF DSM Reference Body Mirror Unit manufacturing DSM Thin Shell AOF DSM Positioning System and Manufacturing TOPTICA-MPB 20 W Laser Concept Launch Telescope System GALACSI: AO Module for MUSE GALACSI Design MUSE Spectrograph GRAAL: GLAO Module for HAWK-I GRAAL Design and Performances GRAAL Assembly ASSIST: DSM Testbed ASSIST Design WFS Detectors and Electronics SPARTA: Standard Platform for Adaptive Optics Real Time Applications Milestones Organization Chart
  • 3. AOF: ADAPTIVE OPTICS FACILITY: DSM: DEFORMABLE SECONDARY MIRROR 4 LGSF: 4 LASER GUIDE STAR FACILITY GALACSI: Ground Atmospheric Layer Adaptive Corrector for Spectroscopic Imaging MUSE: Multi-Unit Spectrocscopic Explorer GRAAL: GRound layer Adaptive optics Assisted by Lasers HAWK-I: High Acuity, Wide field K-band Imaging ASSIST: Adaptive Secondary Simulator and Instrument Testbed SPARTA: Standard Platform for Adaptive optics Real Time Applications OVERVIEW DSM AOF 4LGSF GRAAL GALACSI ASSIST + MUSE
  • 4. THE DSM: THE CORE OF AOF The thin shell mirror has a diameter of 1120 mm, 2 mm thickness, about 9 kg weight. 1170 voice-coil actuators are Hexapod for acting on magnets glued on the centering and fine focusing back face of the shell (below: actuators pattern). The cold- M2 unit is composed by an Cold Plate, heat plate plus hexapod, a cold plate, a evacuation the back- backplate and a thin shell and actuator plate. mirror. The mirror positioning attachment is obtained with an hexapod. The actuators are attached to Reference a cold plate connected to a body reference body, on which the thin shell is leaning when not Thin Shell operative.
  • 5. HUB manufacturi ng on going. Complete DSM POSITIONING verification, including full load test in the final SYSTEM configuration, of all the hexapods MANUFACTURING at ADS (May 2011) All the Hexapod Hexapod after actuator manufacturing prototype and functional during testing at functional ADS (March test 2011).
  • 6. The magnets The cold plate has template been manufactured manufacture and metrologically d at ADS, for checked with a very computer controlled accurate machine at ADS. It gluing of the supports the 1170 magnets on magnetic actuators, the back provides a heat sink face of the for the heat dissipated thin shell. on the actuators coils and makes a mechanical interface for the backplate.. DSM BACKPLATE AND ACTUATORS Right: “mass” Below: D-45 prototype production of test with and without electronics thin shell: Electronics The thin shell is retained at its central hole by a dedicated titanium and actuators test, actuator coil test, and steel bound (membrane), designed in order to prevent only at Microgate.. capacitive sensor test. lateral displacement, without affecting the magnetic actuator action.
  • 7. Detail of The reference body at ADS, after the DSM silver coating and capacitive ZERODUR sensors etching (March 2011). light The total weight of the weighted component is 47 kg. reference body back side at the end of manufactur ing at SESO (August 2010). REFERENCE BODY Final inspection of the reference body at SESO. The unit is ready for the metal coating deposition on the internal sides of the holes, for the capacitive sensor.
  • 8. The M2 Zerodur Hextec slumped Test Matrix engineering shell, produced by to be used for REOSC for the electromechal VLT, inside the testing of the M2- barrel (mount) DSM unit. manufactured for the M2 Test matrix by AOF. The test matrix is being inserted into the barrel with a custom designed and fabricated handling tool (April 2007). Hextec slumped engineering shell DSM THIN SHELL Schott blank for SAGEM (first science shell) Left: first thin science shell during the final phase of the convex side polishing at SAGEM (inspection, February 2010). The Zerodur blank (Schott) grinding started in December 2009. In February 2011 the thickness was about 2.8 mm. Right: The thin shell in February 2011 at SAGEM. In March 2011 the goal thickness of 2 mm has been reached: it’s the first time in Europe for a curved shell.
  • 9. The TOPTICA- TOPTICA-MPB MPB design source is very compact, and will 20 W LASER CONCEPT be located next to the launching telescope , without the need of a dedicated The TOPTICA-MPB design converts the infrared light generated by two clean room. coherently combined Raman Fibre Amplifiers into the yellow spectral region by Second Harmonic Generation (SHG): two 18 W beams at 1178 nm are combined with Coherent Beam Combination (CBC) for 20 W beam generation at 589 nm. With this approach more than 20W at 589 nm are achieved. COHERENT  BEAM  COMBINATION  MODULE 1178 nm SECOND  589 nm  SEED  HARMONIC  output LASER GENERATION SHG prototype. Above: open top view. Below: 22.6 W output power @589 2×18 W  POLARIZATION MAINTAINING  nm have been RAMAN FIBER AMPLIFICATION MODULES demonstrated. 589nm power vs. input 1178nm power 25 SHG output power 589nm, (W) 20 15 The laser designs is being 10 developed by TOPTICA and MPB as part of the ESO LGSF laser system. 5 in black: higher input coupler reflectivity TOPTICA concept is based in red: lower input coupler reflectivity on Raman Fiber Amplification (RFAM). 0 Left: plot of the output 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 power @589 nm, as a 1178nm input power, (W ) function of the total RFAM power.
  • 10. Above, from left to right: scheme of the optical tube assembly; 3-D model oone entire LTS, including Laser Head, Beam LAUNCH Control Diagnostic System (BCSD), Optical Tube Assembly, on its base plate; the LTS inside its enclosure; the four LTS units on the telescope. TELESCOPE SYSTEM Below: the OTA structure at the end of manufacturing at TNO (January 2011). Above: testing of The LTS optical coating samples at system is focus under high designed in order laser power to expandt the 3 illumination (March mm diameter 589 2010) nm wavelength laser beam to a larger beam producing a laser spot of about 30 cm at 90 km The main OTA height. Four of L2 during these units will be manufacturing at mounted on the TNO (January telescope azimutal 2011). L2 is a 50 platform, in order mm thick, 300 to create the 4 mm diameter LGS. aspherical lens.
  • 11. GALACSI goal is to Field of view 1’  WFM (7.5” NFM) concentrate the energy of a Instrument Muse (VIS 3D‐spectrograph) Point Spread Function (PSF) over a large FoV (1’) for a Modes GLAO, LTAO visible-light integral field ×2 in ensquared energy (central pixel),  spectrograph (MUSE: Multi Performance GLAO Unit Spectrographic Explorer), 95% sky coverage a second generation Performance LTAO Strehl Ratio >5% @0.65µm instrument for VLT. 4 LGS L3‐CCD (1 e‐ Read out Noise) Here: 3-D model of GALACSI WFS 1 TT L3‐CCD (left) on the Nasmyth platform 1 TT IR with MUSE (right). Loop frequency = 1 kHz SPARTA HW=GRAAL 4 stars ∅2’/∅20” 4LGSF LTAO drives LGS power ASSIST Full FoV Status FDR passed GALACSI: AO MODULE FOR MUSE GALACSI will operate in two modes: Wide Field Mode (WFM, seeing reducer over 1’ FoV at 750 nm) and Narrow Field Mode (NFM, SR ≅ 6% at 650 nm, in 7.5” FoV). Here is shown a typical simulation of the PSF as expected with GALACSI in NFM.
  • 12. Left: 3D GALACSI optical Above: the scheme, as view from camera is the MUSE. same as for GRAAL. GALACSI DESIGN Right: WFS detector and electronics. Pyramid optical beam splitting of the 4 laser guide stars onto the 4 WFS. COMMISSIONING LGS PATH 4 CAMERA PATH VLT LGS PATH 1 Left: 3-D opto- mechanical design of LGS PATH 2 GALACSI: the LGS path module is VISIBLE shown in more detail TIP-TILT enlarged above on LGS PATH 3 PATH MUSE the right. CALIBRATION PATH
  • 13. Below: the the GALACSI support structure at ESO (March 2011) being alignmed. Above: the GALACSI Field Selector on a Above: GALACSI almost completely assembled, test setup: the Field Selector, source during testing at ESO.Except the LGS wavefront module, Lamp housing/fibre injection and measuring path, GALACSI is already equipped motor controllers are in use. with all the optics. GALACSI GROWTH The light source module for the calibration.
  • 14. Above: the first of the 3D spectrographs, ready after extensive testing at the CRAL optical laboratory. Left: the large MUSE cryogenic system which provides cooling and vacuum for the 24 MUSE detectors (-130° C ), in the integration and test phase at ESO MUSESPECTROGRAPH MUSE visible integral field spectrograph splits the GALACSI adaptive optics corrected field of view in 24 sub-fields. Each of these sub-fields is fed into a spectrograph (Integral Field Unit, IFU). An image slicer in front of each IFU serves as entrance slit, thus producing a spatially resolved spectrum of the full sub-field. MUSE features a Wide Field Mode (WFM) with a 1×1 arcmin field of view and a Narrow Field Mode (NFM) with a 7.5×7.5 arcsec field of view, providing simultaneous spectra of numerous adjacent regions in the sky. A fore-optics tower between the telescope focus and the IFUs hosts a field de-rotator, an ADC, the shutter, the field splitting optics and a plate scale changer. A calibration unit is close to the telescope focus. MUSE total weight is more than 7 tons. Above: one of the 24 16-million pixel detectors to be used) in MUSE. MUSE combines 24 spectrographs (460-930 nm wavelength) in order to be able to probe a field of view as large as possible. Left: an image slicer, composed of two optical elements: the image dissector array (in front) is made of 48 thin (0.9 mm) off-axis spherical mirrors and the focusing mirror array is made of 48 round off-axis spherical mirrors. Image slicers, a new technology, maintain high optical efficiency, and MUSE is using the largest image slicers ever used in astronomy. Each spectrograph is equipped with 4000 x 4000 pixel detectors — the largest detectors used at ESO so far.
  • 15. HAWK-I FoV NASMYTH INTERFACE FLANGE GRAAL is a seeing Open view improver ground layer of GRAAL adaptive optics with the system, assisted by 4 HAWK-I LGS, with science adapter. FoV is of 7.5” square, for feeding the cryogenic NIR imager HAWK-I. GRAAL SPACE ENVELOPE HAWK-I GRAAL with HAWK-I on the Nasmyth platform. Hawk-I is an already existing NIR wide field imager (7.5’×7.5’ FoV). A view cut through the median plane of the AO system shows the limited available space. Exploded view of GRAAL mechanical structure: the bearing is designed for 150Nm friction/80kg, the torque drive for 500Nm nominal/70kg. The cable- GRAAL: GLAO guide system weight is 110 kg, the aluminium structure 75 kg and the steel structure 50 kg. GRAAL total weight is 950 kg (about 2900 kg with HAWK-I). MODULE FOR Hawk‐I shutter HAWK-I Main structure NGS‐TT sensor  assembly Elect. box Elect. box LGS trombone LGS WFS assembly GRAAL is compact: in the simulation Torque drive Steel  picture of the Nasmyth platform (on the structure right), the volume attached to the telescope adapter-rotator remains nearly Bearing Counterweight the same as before GRAAL installation. Steel flange GRAAL is tinted in red and yellow, and is in its integration configuration. One electronics cabinet (not represented) lies on the Nasmyth platform, another one on Maintenance and  Cable guide  Commissioning  the azimuth platform. system assembly
  • 16. GRAAL main MAINTENANCE assembly AND COMMISSIONING descriptive view. PATH The main assembly has LASER been designed PATH TIP-TILT as a plug-and- CORRECTION PATH play unit: no modification of any Hawk-I internal part is HAWK-I necessary during the installation. The design concept has VLT been developed at ESO. The complexity of the optical design relies in the tight arrangement of GRAAL optics in the space available between the telescope adapter and Hawk-I, requiring some optics to be located in a complex 3-D geometry. SESO started the manufacturing of the optics in June ’09. GRAAL DESIGN AND PERFORMANCES Field of view 7.5’ (10” MCM) instrument Hawk‐I (IR imager) modes GLAO, SCAO Performance GLAO x1.7 (central pixel), 95% sky coverage GRAAL is expected to provide about a Performance SCAO (80% in K‐band) factor 2 of 4 LGS L3‐CCD (1 e‐ Read out Noise) improvement in the occurrence WFS 1 TT L3‐CCD of good images 1 NGS L3‐CCD (<0.4”). Seeing reducer at Loop frequency ≥ 700 Hz 60% occurrence SPARTA HW=GALACSI is a factor 0.8 (in K-band). 4LGSF 4 stars Ø12’/‐ Improvement is ASSIST Limited FoV expected for all seeing conditions Detailed design, sub‐contracted main  Status K-band diameter of 50% EE (asec) assembly
  • 17. Left: WFS assembling Left: cooling system; right with electronics. Above and below: tests of the optics at SESO Above: from bottom left, clockwise: TT unit, LGS calibration assembly, MCM lens (February 2011). Below: during assembly of the the rotating frame at NTE (September 2010) Below: one of the LGS pick-up arm mounted on its Physik-Instrumente translator, installed inside the GRAAL rotating flange at NTE.. GRAAL FINAL TESTS …
  • 18. GRAAL mechanical structure has been assembled in the ESO-Garching integration hall in June 2011. The mechanics is already mounted and working, and optics are ready for integration. GRAAL will be the first instrument to be tested on ASSIST. GRAAL tests at ESO will last until end of 2012. Above: GALACSI (front) and GRAAL (back) in the ESO-Garching integration hall. Below: GRAAL mechanical structure fully Above: enlargement of the central part of integrated. The optics are missing. GRAAL mechanical structure, front view. Below: the same part, view from the rear side during a special progress meeting … AND NOW AT ESO
  • 19. 3-D view of ASSIST assembly without the cover, with the DSM module and GALACSI separated from the adapter. The external dimensions are about 4.5 m×4 m×3.5 m. ASSIST IS THE OPTICAL FACILITY DESIGNED FOR TESTING AND CHARACTERISING THE DSM, TOGETHER WITH GRAAL ASSIST: DSM TEST BED AND GALACSI, BEFORE INSTALLATION AT PARANAL. IT WILL BE FIRST INSTALLED AT GARCHING AND THEN SENT TO PARANAL TO AID THE DSM INSTALLATION. ASSIST optical design: AM1 and AM2: ASSIST mirrors; DSM: Deformable Secondary Mirror; FM: Folding mirror; SSTG: Star Simulator Turbulent Generator; VFS: VLT Focus Simulator. The NGS and LGS (GALACSI and GALACSI GRAAL) sources are simulated by the Source Injection module. ADAPTER DSM AM2 AM1
  • 20. AM1 spherical polishing started at end of September 2009. Left: carefully checking the mirror after final aspherical polishing at AMOS (February 2011). Above: microscopic measurement of the rougness. Rgiht: the final testing of AM1 surface implies a complex interferometric setup including a Computer Generated Hologram mask for taking care of its aspherical shape. ASSIST AM1 PRIMARY MIRROR The final specifications on the whole AM1 surface are less than 300 nm RMS on the whole useful diameter (1650 mm), up to less than 10 nm RMS for spatial scales smaller than 100 mm. AM1, an aspherical f/1 mirror, with1.7 m, diameter, made of Zerodur, is the most critical component of ASSIST. On the left: AM1 is in the coating chamber at Calar Alto Observatory (April 2011), after SPECS final protected MEASURED aluminum coating.
  • 21. Left: AM2 polishing and testing at NOVA optical laboratory at ASTRON (June 2010): AM2 is an aspherical, 140 mm diameter mirror, which surface quality is very critical for allowing GRAAL and GALACSI testing with ASSIST. Above: full assembling of the ASSIST main structure mechanics at Boseenkool (NL) (February 2011). Left: the Right: the tower before enclosure. Right: with enclosure. On top of the LGS sources tower the dummy loads simulating the DSM weight are visible. of ASSIST. ASSIST MANUFACTURING Left: the Below: the frame allowing Phase Screen exchange and external rotation. This is part of the Star Simulator and Turbulence modules during Generator module (SSTG). The Phase Screens allow to final testing at simulate a seeing and turbulence profile including coherence. Winlight: clockwise, from upper left: the frong group, FM4, the source group, VL12. Right: one of the first Phase Screens produced by SILIOS: the phase map is visible in transparence on the glass.
  • 22. AM1 in its Right: cell and AM2 in its FM1 spider spider Center right: Right: internal alignment view from of the the top optics ASSIST INTEGRATION AT ESO with the site telescope Left: mechanical structure assembling Right: the whole structure assembled (June 2011): DSM tower, Shack- Hartmann tower and adaptor ring. The total height is more than 5 m. Right: centered Left: 400 reflected kg AM1 rings from handling AM2
  • 23. CCD 220: 240×240 pixels, standard silicon 8 EM amplified outputs up to 15 Mpix/sec, 1400 frames/sec. Analog Front-End Boards WFS camera with OCAM clock board, Hermetic connectors (power entry, Peltier control, temperature Digital Control sensing, alarms), Fiber interface (4 duplex links, 3.125 Electronics Boards Gb/s per link = 12 Gb/s, Connection to NGC back-end, The WFS camera is very compact Connection to RTC), cooling system prototype (pressure 168×240×75 mm. Weight: 3.5kg level of 20 bar) ELECTRONICS CCD 220 thermal model with heat sink design: cryogenic tests are satisfactory (up to required -45°C). Water pipes used for cooling are located on two opposite sides of the heat sink. Heat sink is meshed here in dark blue, water is meshed in blue. OCam Test Camera part of Opticon JRA2 FP6 technology transfer WFS DETECTORS and expected soon duplications for ESO and Grantecan.
  • 24. SUPERVISOR User and Engineering Interface High End Intel CPU / Multi-core / Multi- Real Time Data Display CPU, Linux based Standard hardware Industry standard libraries and Rich test tool suite middleware, commercial (40kE) and Full VLT SW compatible via gateways open source (CORBA/DDS) Modular, scalable, fully reusable Standard Platform for SPARTA Adaptive optics Real Time Applications RTC box (~200k€/system): SPARTA is a highly scalable hardware and software platform for adaptive optics GB Ethernet Switch hard real-time system to drive the AO real-time computers providing very low latency together with high throughput. All 2nd control loops; can receive data from generation AO instruments (including GRAAL and GALACSI) will be equipped with a multiple sensors (4+1 for AOF) and can SPARTA RTC system. control multiple mirrors (1+4 for AOF) at high speed (1 KHz for AOF) with extremely low jitter and very low latency. Fully software reconfigurable to support RTC box multiple applications (GRAAL HAWK-I and GCM). High-tech crate, fully EMI tested, active protection. REAL-TIME BOX Supervisor (~20k€/system): High-througput, high-performance, parallel soft real-time system. Controls the real-time box, implements the AO Multi-technology Real-Time Box: DSP + FPGA + CPU “business logic”, handles Very low total latency (<200us) with FPGAs managing real time communication computational intensive tasks like DSPs for floating point operations, CPUs for monitoring and idle-time control. Co-processing cluster performance estimation, loop Modular, upgradeable, scalable, object oriented, all built with COTS components optimization, atmospheric statistics, High Performance WPU (60kE, <1us latency), parallel reconstructor calibration. Serial I/O, long range fibre interface, 2.5 Gb/s (sFPDP)
  • 25. CDR PDR FDR ARR FAT PAE PAC MILESTONES ASSIST Oct.07 30.06.09 2Q11 3Q11 2Q12 DSM 18.12.07 24.09.09 Apr.’11 4Q12 GRAAL Sept.’05 Mar.07 10.03.09 2Q11 4Q12 2Q13 KO 4Q14 GALACSI Feb.’06 Feb.08 10.02.09 16.06.09 2Q11 2Q13 4Q13 4LGSF 30.09.09 3.02.11 2Q11 N/A 2Q13 4Q11 AOF Sys. 24.04.08 29.04.10 N/A (TRR) 4Q13 1Q12 3Q12 UT4 Upg. 29.04.10 N/A 2Q11 N/A N/A PhaseI PhaseII MUSE Dec.07 Mar.09 N/A 2Q12 (2Q13) 2Q11 4Q13 SPARTA Jun.07 Sept. 08 N/A (SPHERE) (GALACSI) N/A
  • 26. ORGANIZATION CHART Directorate – A. Russell Div. Head – M. Casali Programme Office (Head) Project Manager Steering Committee Project Control1: J. R. Arsenault Strasser M.Casali, R.Tamai, S.Stanghellini, Project Control2 U.Weilenman, L.Pasquini, N.Hubin Quality: G. Igl L. Jochum Project Scientist System Eng. H. Kuntschner P.-Y. Madec Analysis GALACSI UT4 Upgrade 2nd Gen. M2- Manager GRAAL Manager 4LGSF Manager Unit Manager Manager System Engineer J. Paufique W. Hackenberg S. Stroebele J.-F. Pirard E. Vernet P.-Y. Madec System Eng. Inst. Control Inst. Control Simulations D. Bonaccini- 2nd Gen. M2-Unit M. Duchateau A. Jost Contract Calia M. Le Louarn E.Vernet UT4 Optics Optics Inst. Control Implementaion Interfaces B. Delabre B. Delabre I. Guidolin J.-F. Pirard M2-LCU P.-Y. Madec P. Duhoux Mechanics Mechanics Mechanics Comm. System Tests & R. Conzelmann R. Conzelmann R. Guzman J.-F. Pirard Calibrations DSM Maint. SW J. Kolb P. Duhoux Software (OS) GMA Contract Software ASSIST Test M. Kiekebusch J. Paufique M. Comin Bench Agreement P. LaPenna Opt. Tube Software/RTC Software (OS) Assembly Contract C. Soenke AOF AIT M. Kiekebusch M. Quattri S. Tordo AIT Lasers Contract Software/RTC S. Tordo P.-Y. Madec R. Donaldson Safety P.-Y. Madec AIT AIT 1Finance control S. Tordo C. Dupuy 2Project planning control
  • 27. Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy ESO   http://www.astro-opticon.org/ European Organisation Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek http://www.tno.nl/ for Astronomical Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor de Astronomie Research in the http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/nova/ Southern Hemisphere Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica http://www.inaf.it/ Sterrewacht Leiden http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/ Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems http://www.amos.be/ Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille http://www.oamp.fr/infoglueDeliverLive/www/+LAM FASORtronics http://www.fasortronics.com/FASORtronics/FASORtronics_LLC.html Societé Européenne de Systèmes Optiques http://www.seso.com/uk/ Sagem http://sagem-ds.com/ MUSE consortium http://muse.univ-lyon1.fr/http://sagem-ds.com/ Hextec http://www.hextek.com/ AOF Industrial Contractors & Partners ADS International http://www.ads-int.com/ Microgate Engineering http://www.microgate.it/engineering/default.asp Schott http://www.schott.com/ Calar Alto Observatory Winlight Optical System http://www.caha.es/ http://www.winlight-system.com/ SILIOS Technologies Machinenfabriek Boessenkoo bv http://www.silios.com/ http://www.boessenkool.com/ Array Electronics JDSU http://www.array-electronics.com/ http://www.jdsu.com/en-us/Pages/Home.aspx e2v Precision Optics Gera http://www.e2v.com/ http://www.pog.eu/en/products_os_00.html NTE SUSS MicroTec http://www.nte.es/ http://www.suss.com/ Toptica Photonics mso jena Mikroschichtoptik GmbH http://www.toptica.com/ http://www.suss.com/ MPB Communications Inc. Physik Instrumente Piezo nano positioning http://www.mpbc.ca/ http://www.physikinstrumente.de/de/index.php
  • 28. ESO European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere P. Amico, R. Arsenault, D. Bonaccini-Calia, B. Buzzoni, M. Comin, R. Conzelmann, B. Delabre, R. Donaldson, M. Duchateau, P. Duhoux, C. Dupuy, E. Fedrigo, I. Guidolin, R. Guzman Collazos, W. Hackenberg, G. Hess, N. Hubin, L. Jochum, P. Jolley, A. Jost, P. Jolley, L. Kern, M. Kiekebusch, J. Kolb, H. Kuntschner, P. La Penna, M. Le Louarn, J.-L. Lizon, P.-Y. Madec, A. Manescau, J. Paufique, J.-F. Pirard, M. Quattri, J. Quentin, C. Soenke, S. Stroebele, S. Tordo, E. Vernet Preparation & Editing: P. La Penna, ESO