TMT-India:Instrumentation

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India has joined TMT project as an observer http://www.tmt.org/news-center/india-

joins-thirty-meter-telescope-project Looking for 10% level participation

in case and in kind Interests in construction, operation as

well as building instruments

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Breaking News

ARIESNainital

IUCAA, Pune

IIA, Bengaluru

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Focal Plane Array Controllers Successful programme for developing

CCD controllers Version 5 is currently in use – SPARTAN

FPGA based Next generation FPA controller being

designed – VIRTEX FPGA based 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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HAWAII-2RG MUX test set up

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HAWAII-2RG Controller Schematic

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HAWAII-2RGIn

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CryogenicASIC

JADE2 Card

Windows PC with

Teledyne s/w

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FPGA CardLinux PC withCustom s/w

USB/Fibre interface

Please see poster 7742-93

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Optical Fibres – Integral Field Unit

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IFU on the telescope

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Commissioning data from IFU

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Other Projects Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging

Survey (IRSIS) satellite IFU with over 2000 near-IR fibres Multiple HAWAII detectors Extremely compact and light weight

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Adaptive Optics Collaboration with Caltech

Robo-AO Class 10000 clean room set up

Permanent experiment test bench Novel wavefront sensing approaches

– miniaturize WFS Improved and more efficient

wavefront reconstructor algorithms

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IGO backend instrumentation 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)

27 year old, 70000 sq. ft. built up area

End to end solution provider for custom optics

Design, Fabrication, Coating, Integration & Testing capabilities

Customers include Zygo, Indian space, aerospace and military establishments

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SOME OF GOAL’s OVERSEAS CUSTOMERS

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MOU WITH LARGE MULTINATIONALS 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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Some astronomy projects

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TMT Primary segments

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Avasarala Technologies Ltd.

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Total Land Area: 44,000 Sq. Mtrs Total Built up Area 20,000 sq.mtr Height Max 24 mtrsCrane Capacity 50 Tonnes

Bay No Meant for Width Crane Lift ht

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1 EOU 24 10 6.5

2 Automation 24 10 6.5

3 Heavy Machining 24 20 11

4 SS & CS Fabrication 24 20 11

5 Assembly-Nuclear 30 50 21

  Pit 6 M x 6 M     27

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Avasarala’s clients

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NPCIL NFC BHAVINI BARC

ISROIIA HAL

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Aerospace and R & D Labs

Nuclear * BRIT

* IPR* RRCAT

ITER CERN

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HAGAR telescope at 5000m

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Equipments for R&D labs

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Application : Polishing of large diameter Mirrors -1M to a Surface Finish of 10 Nanometers

Ion Beam Polishing System Thermo Vacuum Chamber

Application : Multipactor RF Testing of Satellite Packages under 10 -7 mbar UHV and at -100 deg C to +100 deg C

Precision Magnet Positioning System

CERN, Geneva – 4,500 Nos

European Organisation for Nuclear ResearchMulti nation Mega Project - Large Hadron Collider – LHC > 3 B Euro Project

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Software Capabilties Tata Consultancy Services

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. 4600+ employees at 20+ international locations Worked with Virtual Observatory-India Working on a unique observatory control framework

model 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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