The Life of a Lens: Chronicling the Creation of a Single Lens for DESI
This video chronicles the many steps it took to create a single lens for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).
Lens Path:
- Oyama, Japan (Ohama Group, lass manufacture)
- Berkeley, stopped on the way Tucson, AZ (AOS, polishing vendor)
- West Nottingham, NH (Inventex, ground lens to near shape)
- Tucson, AZ (AOS, polishing vendor)
- Greenbelt, MD (GSFC, mechanical measurements on lens)
- Tucson, AZ (AOS, polishing vendor)
- Santa Rosa, CA (Viavi, antireflection coating vendor)
- London, UK (UCL, system integrator)
- Kitt Peak, AZ (Installation)
Credit:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab/KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
About the Video
Id: | life_of_lens |
Release date: | Dec. 20, 2020, 3:07 a.m. |
Duration: | 03 m 07 s |
Frame rate: | 29.97 |