Software Tools

Our group possesses the following software capabilities and expertise:

• Optical Design (Zemax) and Structure/Thermal/Optical (STOP) analysis
• Mechanical Design (SolidWorks)
• Mechanical / Thermal Modeling (ANSYS / NASTRAN)
• Electronic circuit design, SPICE simulation, and fabrication
• Systems Engineering and Project Management (MS Project)
• MATLAB

Equipment

Our group possesses or has direct access to the following hardware tools and equipment: 

• Fiber cleaving machine (Vytran LDC-200)
• Fiber low-stress plasma strip machine (3SAE FPU II)
• Fiber positioning machine (Custom-built)
• Mechanical thermal vacuum chamber (20" cube),
• Optical thermal vacuum chambers (cryogenic optical/IR MTF and PSF testing up to 10" clear aperture)
• FiberOptic Focal Ratio Degradation test apparatus (Custom-built)
• Optical GSE table, produces 1/5 wave artificial constellations using 10" SORL OAP
• Vibration testing table
• Zygo VeriFire QPZ interferometer with 6 inch beam expander
• LUPI Twyman-Green interferometer
• Harness hipot tester
• Helium leak detector (Pfeiffer ASM340)
• Optical / Infrared monochrometer (Newport CS260)
• USB optical spectrometer (ThorLabs)
• X-ray sources (Fe-55)
• Pneumatic RTV lens bonding station
• Floating optical benches