Organizational unit: INSTRUMENTATION DIVISION

Email
secins [at] iac.es
Headquarter
Headquarters
Description
The Instrumentation Division provides technological support in the elaboration and execution of research and development projects to fulfil the aims of the IAC. Among the objectives of the Division are the development of new instrumentation for astronomical research, the maintenance of the existing astronomical instrumentation, the utilization of its technological capabilities in other fields of science and engineering to benefit the society, the training of technical personnel, and the generation and transfer of technology. The Division is divided into various engineering departments (Software, Electronics, Optics, Mechanics, and Projects) and Production (Mechanics, Electronics, and Technical Drawing workshops, and Specific Software Services).
  • Project
    LIRIS - Long-slit Intermediate Resolution Infrared Spectrograph
    Intermediate spectrograph for the 4.2 m William Herschel telescope located at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos
  • Project
    MIRADAS - Mid-resolution InfRAreD Astronomical Spectrograph
    MIRADAS is an intermediate resolution infrared spectrograph for the GTC telescope. It will operate in the infrared range of 1 to 2.5 microns with a spectral...
  • Project
    Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics for EST
    IAC is developing a Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) bench, with the purpose of demonstrating in laboratory solutions of some of the main problems related...
  • Project
    NAHUAL
    Infrared high-resolution echelle spectrograph for the Great Telescope CANARIAS (GTC) of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in the island of La Palma...
  • Project
    New control system for IAC-80 and TCS
    The Carlos Sánchez and IAC80 telescopes, known as TTNN and located in the Teide Observatory, are telescopes manually operated by astronomers (in person or...
  • Project
    NISP (EUCLID)
    The Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) is an infrared spectrograph for the EUCLID mission. The aim of EUCLID is to obtain a map of the Dark matter...
  • Job
    One postdoctoral contract SO CSOA OPTICA 2022 (PS-2022-036)
    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on topics within the project Centro de Sistemas Ópticos Avanzados” (E/402100) installation and...
  • Project
    Óptica Adaptativa con FPGAs
    A project for the technological demonstration of the use of FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) in the field of adaptive optics systems.
  • Project
    Optical Ground Station- OGS
    Optical communication operations with the OGS. The aim of this project is to characterise optical communications from the earth to artificial satellites.