Instrumentation Department

Instrumentation Team

Manager: Omar GABELLA

Our missions:
  • Study, develop and design experimental devices and instruments to respond to requests from research groups in the laboratory.
  • Provide our instrumentation skills:
    • Electronics
    • Control / command
    • Optical
    • Microcontrollers
    • Automatic
    • Programming of Human / Machine Interfaces
    • Data processing
    • Mechanics
    • Electronic CAD
    • … and more!
Our projects

The department is involved in various international projects of instrumental particle physics and intervenes at different stage of their development: feasibility study, preliminary design, detailed design, assembly and integration.

Among these projects there are two international projects HESS and CTAO, the instrumentation department has developed the pulsed calibration light sources for the different cameras of the various telescopes, an elastic LIDAR on the HESS site in Namibia and a current Raman LIDAR development for CTAO.

Since the end of 2019, the department has been involved in the KM3NeT project, a next-generation neutrino telescope. This instrument consists of two underwater telescopes currently under construction and deployment off the coasts of Toulon (ORCA) and Sicily (ARCA). The LUPM serves as a production site for the Base Modules (BM) located at the foot of the detection lines for the ORCA telescope and has contributed to the upgrade of the detector time-synchronization system through the use of the White Rabbit PTP Core software.

The latest project, ANDES (formerly known as HIRES) is a so-called second-light instrument for the ELT (Extremely Large Telescope), the future biggest optical and near-infrared telescope. The instrumentation team is involved in the development of the calibration unit and is responsible for the control-command part of the LDP module (Light Distribution Point). The calibration unit aims at providing the ANDES instrument with reference light beams.

 

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