High Contrast Imaging Testbed Facility

Testbed name Managing institution
HCIT NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Contact person People willing to give talks
Camilo Mejia Prada
  • Nick Siegler
  • Camilo Mejia Prada
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    Main scientific focus Testbed environment
    High Contrast Imaging Technology Development HCIT is a ISO 7 clean room (class 10000), with three optical tables. The optical tables are sits on Minus K's Passive Mechanical Vibration Isolators inside two vacuum chamber. The Chambers provide a space-like test environment (turbulence free and thermally stable). Each table has a supercontinuum laser sources, remote actuation and selection of optical elements, deformable mirrors, thermal sensors, local thermal control loops, silicon CCD/CMOS sensors and one of the tables has an Integrated Field Spectrometer as well.
    Key hardware items Current status
  • Vacuum Chamber
  • Remote Actuation
  • Supercontinuum Laser Sources
  • Minus K's Passive Mechanical Vibration Isolators
  • Deformable Mirrors
  • Integrated Field Spectrometer
    		•  On activity with multiple of collaborations.
    Software, languages Is our software shared?
    Python No.

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