Filter Oven

A large vacuum oven has recently come online in Cardiff that enables manufacture of filters of all shapes and sizes up to a 300mm diameter, large lithographically deposited grids and increases throughput of anti-reflection coated optics.

 

Oven

 

The latest generation of large format Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs) in Astronomy requires matiching large filters which has been the driving force behind this development. Comercially, this technology significantly increases the filter size that QMC Instruments Ltd. can manufacture for other applications.

 

KAO

 Some filters delivered to the Korean Astronomy Observatory ...

 

kvn2

 ... and a 1cm-1 low-pass filter delivered to the Korean Astronomy Observatory

 

The oven is situated in the Cardiff University clean rooms.

 

 

Edited Oct09