The main objective of this activity is to identify and assess suitable advanced technology concepts and materials that may provide a disruptive breakthrough for very large optical space telescopes (e.g. deployable membranes)

This activity aims at exploring the benefits which can be extracted from the fibre laser technology by designing and breadboarding a fibre laser system which fulfils the transmitter requirements of a Differential Absorption LIDAR for CO2 and CH4. Such a fibre laser system would offer the modularity for multispectral operation with narrow spectral bandwidth and high spectral stability