Innovative Technologies for Large Deployable Optical Telescopes
Programme Reference
T716-070MM
Status
Closed
Country
Belgium
Start Date
2009
End Date
2013
Programme: TDE Prime Contractor: IAL CENTRE SPATIAL DE LIEGE
Subcontractors:
Technische Universitaet Muenchen • Germany
UNIV BRUSSELS BRUXELLES - DEPT OF APPLIED ME • Belgium
Objectives
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)
Description
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
