R&D Optics & Instrumentation - LAM - Laboratoire …€¦ · · 2017-05-03Analyse de front...

February 15, 2017 GRD - R&D group in optics and instrumentation

February 15, 2017

GRD

R&D Optics &

Instrumentation

Missions, Highlights, Team Organisation, Roadmap


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Lead / participate into

cutting edge instrumentation

through innovative R&D

Mission and Vision


Mission and Vision

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Propose innovations

in the field of optics for astronomical instrumentation

Build a long term roadmap

of technology maturity increase

Lead

large instrumentation programs

Realize proofs of concepts

of innovative key technologies

Scientific exploitation

propose new data treatment,spot the limits and go beyond…


TRL 1 TRL 3-4

The idea

TRL 6-7 TRL 9

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Functional prototypesIn lab

Proved in representative environment

Full functionality demonstrated

Requires specialized partners & industrials(Also called the death valley...)

Research & Development

Technological demonstrations

NB: Schematic representation

On-sky operations / Industrialization

High risk: 3 out of 10 innovations reach this stageThe funniest part

The TRL road(Technologies Readiness Level)


The place of the GRD at LAMA central role, many interactions

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GRDR&D Optics &

Instrumentation

GECO: Galaxies Etoiles &

Cosmology

GSPPlanetary science

DISSInstrumentation

department

CESAMLAM Data center

Technological platforms


Scientific organization of the groupFour R&D pillars

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GRDR&D Optics &

Instrumentation

Telescopes,Optical Fab & Testing

Active & Adaptive opticsHigh contrast imaging

Spectroscopic Techniques and MOEMS

Innovative detectors & focal planes


2011-2016

GRD HIGHLIGHTS

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Adaptive Optics & High contrast imaging at LAM/ONERA From VLTs to the E-ELT

T. De Zeeuw visit 8

HARMONI-SCAO HARMONI- LTAOMOSAIC - MOAO

Bernard, Neichel, Zavagno et alGemini press release 2016

SPHERE system engineer, AO responsible, AO & SPHERE AITAnalyse de front d’onde ZELDA on sky NASA/JPL proven

On Sky 2014

A unique expertise in designing, developing, integrating and operating AO systems

Co-I Ship / AO responsible Innovative NGS-WFS

for High Contrats Imaging Post processing of AO data

Co-I Ship / AO responsible Innovative LGS-WFS design Smart Tomographic control laws Design & AIT activities

Fusco et al 2014, Sauvage et al, 2016


Active and innovative optics at LAM/ONERA

Superpolished active mirrors for SPHEREFrom R&D to on-sky applications

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Hugot, Ferrari et al 2009, 2012

On Sky 2014

R&D Innovative compact instrumentation

Enabling mass production of curved detectors

ESO press releaseSuperb New Mirrors Bring Exoplanet Discoveries Nearer

An industry oriented approachTowards a drastic reduction of the instrumentation size

FAME: the very first Freeform Active MirrorA four years effort towards a functional prototypeOpens a new window on optical design and fabrication

Active mirrors moduleReal time correction of the CILAS deformable mirror

ageing and drift with a single actuator

On SPHERE since 2015

Lemared et al 2014 Chalitta et al 2013


MOEMS-based next generation instrumentation at LAM

MIRA and MOEMS platform

BATMAN at TNG

F. Zamkotsian et al., 2014, 2016

European leader of MOEMS development for ground-based and space instrumentation

On-sky in 2018

MOEMS devices BATMAN: a new family of spectro-imagersFrom lab demonstrator to on-sky instrument prototype

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Collaborations with leading micro-technology labs

- Tiltable micromirror array for Multi-Object Spectroscopy- Micro-deformable mirrors for Adaptive Optics- Programmable diffraction grating for spectroscopy

M. Canonica et al., 2013, 2013 F. Zamkotsian et al., 2012

MIRA + integrated hardened electronics

MOEMS characterization platform:Tests of MOEMS-DMs for GMT (with ANU)

French-Italian consortium

Scheduled at Galileo Telescope (IT)


Innovative detectors

OCAM2 - S

European leader of high performance cameras for ground-based instrumentation

- Shuttered version of OCAM2- Sub-microsecond shutter- E-ELT rayleigh LGS MOAO demo

OCAM – OCAM2LAM, ESO & IPAG collab for the SPHERE WFS (OPTICON FP6)

- Spec : 1200 FPS and <1 e- noise (240x240 pix). ESO WFS is based at 80% on OCAM

- 2067 FPS and <1 e- noise (OCAM2) Creation of First Light Imaging Spinoff

> 30 OCAM2 cameras delivered by FLI worldwide for AO application and others since 2011

Development of a 4kx4k EMCCD

Collaboration with LAE (Montreal) and Univ. of Cape Town

- Science grade 4kx4k EMCCD- <1 e- noise , 5 FPS- LAM will develop the camera

On sky on the CANARY instrument

@WHT

LGSD - NGSDLAM, ESO & IPAG collab for the E-ELT WFS (OPTICON FP7)

- Spec : 800 FPS and <3 e- noise- 1800x1800 pixels BSI CMOS device

The largest EMCCD everOriented for ultra low noise and photon counting

Gach et al 2016


A central role in the E-ELT instrumentation

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E-ELT related Workshops (LAM organization/ lead): 9 since 2014

ELT AO simulation, ELT AO data processing, PSF reconstruction, LG WFS, AO Tomography, ELT/VLT WFS…

AO related Conferences (SPIE Socs, etc…)

AO4ELT4 (2015) : 21 co-authored papers over 96 21,8%

SPIE AO session (2016): 55 co-authored papers over 295 18,5%

Leadership on the E-ELT instrumentation

AO Scientist HARMONI Thierry FUSCO

Co-I HARMONI Benoit NEICHEL

SCAO Scientist HARMONI Jeff SAUVAGE

LTAO Scientist HARMONI Carlos CORREIA

E-ELT MOS AO Carlos CORREIA’s expertise

About 1/5 of AO conferences papers these last 2 years!

From long term R&Ds to instrumental realizations


2011-2016

GRD : THE TEAM ORGANIZATION

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Attraction – Training - Animation


A great and growing team!3x larger in 6 years

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Scientific production & awards2011-2016

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Defended PhDs: 7

Visit our Alumni page all employed!

Publications: >200

Patents: 7

Internal seminars 93

Weekly schedule, Led by Postdocs, Gender balance 30/60. To be improved

Students awards (7) Best Young Researcher award from CNES 2011 UNESCO/L’Oréal Women for Science prize 2011 Best ED352 PhD award 2012 and 2014 Best AMU PhD awards 2012 and 2014 Best ONERA Physics Dept. PhD award 2014

Faculty awards (4) Young researcher prize delivered by SF2A 2014 Cristal medal delivered by CNRS 2015 MERAC prize delivered by EAS 2017 Bronze medal delivered by CNRS 2017


Excellence programs

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Over the period 2011-2016

Two starting ANR

EXTRA initiative of excellence

ICARUS ERC starting

OPTICON FP7 program H2020 selected!

Target new funding

MSCA postdoctoral fellows, ANRs (3 ANRs in 2017)

H2020 : COMPET & SPACE programs (1 COMPET-2 in 2017)

One ERC application a year (Two applications in 2017)

Organize red reviews of proposals crucial for successful applications

260k€ 340k€ 600k€

2M€ 1,75M€


HDR\Yrs 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

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Funded

not yet funded

JFS

Avi

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Mélanie Roulet (Optical 3D printing)

PhD (Post-treatment ELT)

PhD (Post-treatment-2)

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Fza

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Clément Escolle (Space Act Opt)

Wilfried Jahn (Innovative FPA)

Sylvain Egron (Space Act Opt)

Taissir Heritier (on-sky calibration)

Tfu

PhD (High Spectral Resolution)

Ehu

PhD (Innovative FPA-2)

Lucie Leboulleux (Cophasing)

Romain Alata (Gratings)

Christophe Gaschet (Curved Detectors)

Anne-Laure Cheffot (E-ELT co-phasing - ESO)

PhD (Curved detectors / ESO)

PhD CNES (Spectro-imagers)

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Anais Bernard (WFAO + Post treatment)

Olivier Fauvarque (WFS)

Sabri Lemared (Lightweight segments)

The PhD/HDR programSpread over 8 years

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HDR under writing


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The PhDs supervision program

Train the new generation of instrumentalists

Develop their mentoring through internships supervision

Prepare them for future applications at fellowships or tenure/tenure-track like positions

Supervision scheme

Publication objectives target excellence fellows

PhD students > 2 refereed papers during the PhD

Post docs > 2 refereed papers a year

Faculty members = 1 paper every other year


2017-2021

GRD ROADMAP

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High angular resolutionI. Wide field adaptive optics LAM-ONERA

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Objective: Leadership on wide field spectro-imagers for future large telescopes

Lead of HARMONI-AOs [2025]

Key participation in MOSAIC-AO [2025+]

Key participation VLT 3rd generation Visible MCAO [2025]

Roadmap & On-sky validation

PSF reconstruction (Keck, AOF, Gemini, Canary)

Optimize science return for WFAO based instrumentation

New tomographic approaches for LTAO

On-sky calibration methods (LBT, AOF)

Innovative WFS for vis/NIR (Keck)


High angular resolutionII. High contrast imaging

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Objective: Key participation in PCS / LUVOIR

(Lead) VLT SPHERE Upgrade [2020+]

(Lead) mode HC HARMONI [2025+]

(key participation) E-ELT PCS [2030+]

WFIRST -> HabEx, LUVOIR [2035+]

Roadmap & in-lab / on-sky validation

Segmented pupil (HiCat, SPEED, Keck)

New differential imaging techniques (SPHERE)

Low flux/High spectral resolution techniques (Mithic)

Ultimate contrast performance (Mithic, Keck, SPHERE)

Egron, Leboulleux et al in prep.

JWST pupil on the JOST/HiCat bench


Innovative optical systems

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Objective: High quality wavefront & compact systems

Innovative optical functionalities [2024 – 2028]ex: Fore optics MOSAIC, Scale changer HARMONI

UV imagers: MESSIER proposal, LUVOIR instrumentation [2020-2035 (!)]

HQ optics for HC imaging (WFIRST, E-ELT-PCS, LUVOIR) [2025-2035 (!)]

Space based wide field imagers [2020-2025]ex: Earth Obs planetology, post Europa?

Roadmap related to large observatories developments

Superpolished aspherical optics: UV and HC imaging (10-10)

Freeform optics: Wide field instruments (R&T CNES)

Space active optics: future large observatories

3D printing of active mirrors & structures

Ultra-lightweight large mirrors (Thales) Jahn et al in prep.

Focal plane segmentation for wide field scan-drift telescopes


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Objective: Spectro-imager MOS-type & programmable spectro

BATMAN on sky @ TNG 1rst on-sky demonstrator [2018]

Modified BATMAN on 8-10m (Keck, Gemini, ex: proposal GMOX) [2020?]

Spectro MOS @ VLT (VLT 3rd generation?) [2025]

Programmable spectro for Earth observation/Planeto [2025+]

Roadmap related to large observatories

Programmable slits & associated electronics

High density deformable mirrors

Computer Generated Holograms (CGH)

Programmable apodization for HC

Spectroscopic techniques and MOEMS

Alata et al in prep.

µmirrors based CHG recorded on photosensitive material


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Objective : Optimal detection

E-ELT instrumentation and AO (WFS) [2020+]

On-sky demonstration of curved detectors [2020]

Wide field VLT 3 or ‘à la MUSE’ E-ELT 6 spectro [2025 - 2030+]

Space based spectro imaging , WF or HC: HabEx, LUVOIR [2030+]

Roadmap related to future large observatories

Large format (8k² - 16k²) – Spectro-imagers for E-ELT or space (Vis, SWIR, NIR)

Spectrally sensitive detectors - (Earth observations)

Ultra Low noise detectors (<< 0,1 e ) – HC imaging (WFS)

Curved / flexible detectors (EMCCD, CMOS, etc..)

High sensitivity detectors - HC imaging (science)

Detectors and focal planes

Gaschet et al 2017 in prep.

Highly curved VIS CMOS detector


The group collaborations

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Reinforce the partnership LAM-ONERA

VLT / E-ELT instrumentation

HARMONI success

ELT-MOS to be built

Enhance collaborations with W.M. Keck Obs.

on sky demonstrations of AO concepts PSF reconstruction

Segmented apertures

Build an International lab with STScI

Cutting edge space instrumentation Exchange of PhD students (2 already)

Entrance ticket to LUVOIR

Develop the interactions Research-Industry

Towards innovative technologies Common lab with THALES

Curved detectors with CEA-LETI

Ground and Space instrumentation R&D


THANKS !!

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