Work package number | WP3 | Lead beneficiary | 3 - UNITOV |
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Work package title | Capacitance-Stabilised Fabry-Perot Development | ||
Start month | 1 | End month | 36 |
Design and realization of a customised Capacitance-Stabilised control system for future 200 mm diameter FPI. The main goal is to build a 50 mm FPI prototype engineering prototype to be tested in laboratory by interferometry to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed optomechanical design and new cavity controller.
WP3 - Capacitance-Stabilised Fabry-Perot Development [Months: 1-36] (UNITOV, IAC, SU, CNR, ADS)
WP3 is focussed on the development of a 50 mm CSE prototype to validate the opto-mechanical design of the etalon and to test the capability of the digital electronic controller to be developed in this project. Accurate etalons are required for large solar telescopes to ensure the nanometric accuracy of the parallelism of the plates that form the interferometer and make the spectral transmission profile as close to the theoretical curve as possible. The variation of the distance between the plates must also be subject to repeatability with a high-degree of precision to make long observing runs possible.
This WP is divided into four tasks to account for the design, manufacturing, assembly, integration and test of the protype.
The main activities that will be undertaken in this task are related to the design of the mount and control system of the etalon
With this task, the mechanical parts of the prototype will be built following the design obtained in task 3.1.
This task will be devoted to the integration of the different parts following the steps below
Finally, the CSE prototype will be tested at the lab.