The ESPRI Project: differential delay lines for PRIMA

Details The ESPRI Project: differential delay lines for PRIMA The ESPRI Project: differential delay lines for PRIMA

Jul 2008

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Optical and Infrared Interferometry. Edited by Schöller, Markus; Danchi, William C.; Delplancke, Françoise. Proceedings of the

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ESPRI is a project which aims at searching for and characterizing extra-solar planets by dual-beam astrometry with PRIMA@VLTI. Differential Delay Lines (DDL) are fundamental for achieving the micro-arcseconds accuracy required by the scientific objective. Our Consortium, consisting of the Geneva Observatory, the Max-Planck Institut for Astronomy Heidelberg, and the Landessternwarte Heidelberg, in collaboration with ESO, has built and tested these DDLs successfully and will install them in summer 2008 at the VLTI. These DDLs consist of high quality cat's eyes displaced on a parallel beam-mechanics and by means of a two-stage actuation with a precision of 5 nm over a stroke length of 70 mm. Over the full range, a bandwidth of about 400 Hz is achieved. The DDLs are operated in vacuum. We shall present, in this paper, their design and their exceptional performances.

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