TMT-India:Instrumentation
A. N. Ramaprakash
Breaking News
India has joined TMT project as an
observer
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http://www.tmt.org/news-center/indiajoins-thirty-meter-telescope-project
ARIES
Looking for 10%
level participation in
Nainital
case and in kind
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Interests in construction, operation as well
as building instruments
IUCAA, Pune
IIA, Bengaluru
10.01.2009
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Successful programme for developing CCD
controllers
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Version 5 is currently in use – SPARTAN FPGA
based
Next generation FPA controller being
designed – VIRTEX FPGA based
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L3CCD, EMCCD, OTCCD, CMOS (ASTROSAT),
PICNIC (NIPI), HAWAII
Handle large mosaics (16 input channels)
High speed (1Megapixel per second)
Better noise performance
On-board memory and image analysis
Programmable readout modes
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Focal Plane Array Controllers
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HAWAII-2RG MUX test set up
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USB/Fibre
USB interface
interface
HAWAII2RG
Cryogenic
In
ASIC
FPGA Card
JADE2
Card
Dewar
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Linux PCPC
Windows
with
with
Teledyne
Custom
s/w
Please see poster 7742-93
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HAWAII-2RG Controller Schematic
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Optical Fibres – Integral Field Unit
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IFU on the telescope
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IRAS 1256 in grism GR8
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Commissioning data from IFU
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Other Projects
Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Survey
(IRSIS) satellite
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IFU with over 2000 near-IR fibres
Multiple HAWAII detectors
Extremely compact and light weight
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Adaptive Optics
Collaboration with Caltech
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Robo-AO
Class 10000 clean room set up
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Permanent experiment test bench
Novel wavefront sensing approaches –
miniaturize WFS
Improved and more efficient wavefront
reconstructor algorithms
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IGO backend instrumentation
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Fibre Integral Field Unit for IFOSC – FIFUI
Near-Infrared PICNIC Imager – NIPI
Low order adaptive optics corrector
Fabry-Perot Spectrograph
Integrated Instrument Control System (TELICS)
Power House
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Indian Industries
General Optics Asia Ltd. (GOAL)
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27 year old, 70000 sq. ft. built up area
End to end solution provider for custom
optics
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Design, Fabrication, Coating, Integration &
Testing capabilities
Customers include Zygo, Indian space,
aerospace and military establishments
Interested in supplying TMT primary
mirror segments and other optical
components
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SOME OF GOAL’s OVERSEAS CUSTOMERS
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Raytheon Defence & Avionics
Northrop Corporation
EADS Defense Security
BAe Systems
Sagem Défense Sécurité
Optical Research Associates, California
Zeiss Optronics (Proposed)
Israel Aircraft Industries (Proposed)
Selex (Proposed)
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MOU WITH LARGE MULTINATIONALS
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Some astronomy projects
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TMT Primary segments
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Bay
No
Meant for
Total Land Area: 44,000 Sq. Mtrs
Total Built up Area 20,000 sq.mtr
Height Max 24 mtrs
Crane Capacity 50 Tonnes
Crane
Lift ht
M
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EOU
24
10
6.5
2
Automation
24
10
6.5
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Heavy Machining
24
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SS & CS Fabrication
24
20
11
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Assembly-Nuclear
30
50
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Pit 6 M x 6 M
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Width
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Avasarala Technologies Ltd.
Nuclea
r
NPCIL
NFC
BHAVINI
BARC
HWB
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BRIT
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IPR
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RRCAT
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Avasarala’s clients
Aerospace and R & D Labs
IIA
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ITER
CERN
HAL
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ISRO
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HAGAR telescope at 5000m
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European Organisation for Nuclear
Ion BeamResearch
Polishing
System
Multi nation Mega Project Application :
Hadron Collider – LHC
> 3 B Euro Project
Polishing of large diameter Mirrors -1M
Precision
Magnet
to a Surface Finish
of 10
Nanometers
Positioning System
CERN, Geneva – 4,500 Nos
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Thermo Vacuum Chamber
Large
Application
:
Multipactor RF Testing of Satellite
Packages under 10 -7 mbar UHV and
at -100 deg C to +100 deg C
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Equipments for R&D labs
Software Capabilties
Tata Consultancy Services
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Tata Group subsidiary
Over 160,000 IT consultants in 42 countries,
above USD6.3billion revenue
Worked on Giant Metre Wave Radio Telescope
(GMRT)
Persistent Systems Ltd.
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4600+ employees at 20+ international locations
Worked with Virtual Observatory-India
Working on a unique observatory control
framework model
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IUCAA 2m optical telescope and GMRT
Interests in developing observatory, telescope
and instrument control software, data pipeline
and archives, proposal management systems
etc.
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