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