Capital Equipment Infrastructure in the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation

达勒姆大学的先进仪器中心(CFAI)为广泛领域的应用开发创新技术，包括天文学、空间科学、遥感、伽马射线天文学和核聚变诊断(http://www.dur.ac.uk/cfai).它拥有英国最大的大学团体之一，开发用于地面光学/红外天文的仪器。这些核心活动由STFC综合赠款提供资金，该基金为基础研发提供人力资源和消耗品，将新技术用于未来在世界上最大的望远镜上的应用。这笔赠款将通过为未来十年支持我们未来计划的三个专业资本设备项目提供匹配资金，来加强CFAI的实验室基础设施。其中包括：(1)一个对光学表面进行超灵敏测量而不受CfAI实验室和洁净室局部干扰影响的仪器；(2)一个产生人造卫星导航信号以评估无人驾驶飞行器校准单架和多架地面望远镜的潜力的系统；(3)一个窄线可调谐波长源，该光源可用于全面描述新型光学/红外仪器的性能，并将在技术上得到应用；(3)用于开展眼科学和生物光子学方面的衍生活动。

The Centre for Advanced Instrumentation (CfAI) at Durham University develops innovative technologies for applications across a wide range of fields including astronomy, space science, remote sensing, gamma ray astronomy and fusion diagnostics (http://www.dur.ac.uk/cfai). It hosts one of the largest UK university groups developing instrumentation for ground-based optical/infrared astronomy. These core activities are funded via an STFC Consolidated Grant which provides staff resource and consumables for basic R&D into new technologies for future applications on the world's largest telescopes. This grant will enhance the laboratory infrastructure at CfAI by providing matched funding for three specialist capital equipment items that will support our future programme over the next decade. These include (i) an instrument for ultra-sensitive measurements of optical surfaces free from the effects of local disturbances in the CfAI laboratories and clean rooms; (ii)a system for generating artificial satellite navigation signals for evaluating the potential of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to calibrate single and multiple ground-based telescopes; (iii) a narrow-line tuneable wavelength source which can be used to fully characterise the performance of new optical /infrared instruments and which will also have applications in technology spinout activities related to ophthalmology and biophotonics.