General Description

  • High vacuum chamber for UV detectors and instruments
  • Combined with a class 10000 clean tent the UV calibration lab can support prototype development and flight instrument testing/calibration

Lab Capabilities

  • Able to pump down past 10-6 Torr
  • 4 degree of freedom chamber positioning system
  • Hollow cathode UV source
    • Accepts multiple source gasses (Ar, Ne, CO2, H, He)
    • Monochromater selects zero or first order UV flux from 30 to 550 nm