Capital Equipment Infrastructure in the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation

达勒姆大学先进仪器中心（CfAI）为天文学、空间科学、遥感、伽马射线天文学和聚变诊断等广泛领域的应用开发创新技术（http://www.dur.ac.uk/cfai）。它拥有英国最大的大学团队之一，开发用于地面光学/红外天文学的仪器。这些核心活动由STFC综合拨款资助，为世界上最大的望远镜未来应用的新技术的基础研发提供人员资源和耗材。这项拨款将为三种专业基本设备提供配套拨款，以加强本所的实验室基础设施，支持本所未来十年的计划。这些包括(i)一种在CfAI实验室和洁净室中不受局部干扰影响的光学表面超灵敏测量仪器；（ii）产生人造卫星导航信号的系统，以评估无人驾驶飞行器校准单台和多台地面望远镜的潜力；（iii）窄线可调谐波长光源，可用于全面表征新型光学/红外仪器的性能，并可应用于眼科和生物光子学相关的技术衍生活动。

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.