Research Infrastructure
 Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam



Since the "Schwarzschildhaus", a new building for research and technology, went into operation in March 2000, the AIP has an excellent position for the development of ground-based large aperture telescopes, focal plane instrumentation, and observatories in space. Current projects include the AGW units for the Large Binocular Telescope, the 3D spectrograph PMAS, and the robotic telescope STELLA. Among projects at the planning stage or in the process or preparation, there are the spectropolarimeter PEPSI, the astrometry satellite DIVA, the solar telescope GREGOR, and a possible participation in 2nd Generation VLT instrumentation.

The Schwarzschildhaus offers, along with a suite of offices for scientists in the first floor, a modern mechanical workshop with state-of-the art machines, including an assembly hall and storage space, an office for mechanical design with 3 CAD workstations, an electronics lab consisting of 3 rooms, a detector lab, a class-4 clean room, an optical lab with 3 separate rooms which can be combined to form a single large laboratory, a faraday cage for the testing of optical and IR detector systems, the computer center for supercomputers and central network services, and associated rooms for support, operations, and archiving.



The following gallery provides an overview of the facilities available for R&D projects at AIP. Click on images to obtain full resolution.


Mechanical Workshop     Mechanical Workshop     Mechanical Workshop     Mechanical Workshop    
Mechanical Workshop IXION CNC Machine Deckel CNC Machine CNC Lathe
  
CAD Mechanical Engineering     CAD Mechanical Engineering     CAD Mechanical Engineering     CAD Mechanical Engineering    
CAD 1 CAD 2 3D CAD design ... ... real component
  
Electronics Lab     Electronics Lab     Electronics Lab     Electronics Lab    
Electronics Lab 1 Electronics Lab 2 Electronics Lab 3 Electronics Lab 4
  
Optics Lab     Precision Optics     Optical Fibers 1     Optical Fibers 2    
Optics Lab Precision Optics Optical Fibers 1 Optical Fibers 2
  
Clean Room     CCD Detector Head     Detector Lab     Photometric Testbench    
Clean Room CCD Detector Head Detector Lab Photometric Testbench
  
Integration Hall 1     Integration Hall 2     Integration Hall 3     Integration Hall 4    
Integration Hall 1 Integration Hall 2 Integration Hall 3 Integration Hall 4
  

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