Brief introduction

　　The research department specializes in new technology and method for developing ground and space telescope with large aperture and high resolution。Indoor and outdoor thin mirror active optics lab , large aperture segment mirror active optics lab，mechanism-electronics lab，micro—displacement lab，mirror cementation lab attach to the research department 。

Technology of advantage：

1）：optimization design of astronomical optical system

2）：structural optimization design of large telescope

3）：mirror supporting technology for large aperture telescope

4）：active optics with large aperture ( thin mirror active optics and segment mirror active optics)

5）：tracking technology with low speed and high accuracy

Researching and developing project：

1）：Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST)

2）：Infrared solar telescope with aperture of 1M

3）：Proposal and pre-research of key technology for optical/infrared telescope with aperture of 30-100m

4）：Proposal and pre-research of relative technology for space telescope with large aperture

5）：adaptive optics with large aperture

6）：friction driven technology with high accuracy for alt-azimuth mounting

7）：Integrated modeling of the astronomical telescope

Staff

　　The research department has 36 professional person including 10 research fellows and 11 senior engineers。

　　Director ：Prof. LiGuoping (Email ：gpli@niaot.ac.cn)

　　General engineer ：Prof. CuiXiangqun (Email ：xcui@niaot.ac.cn)

Research field

1）：Proposal and pre-research of key technology for new concept extremely large telescope

2）：active optics and adaptive optics with large aperture

3）：mirror supporting technology for large aperture telescope with high accuracy

4）：huge precision mechanical technology

5）：structural optimization design of extremely large telescope

6）：auto-controlling technology for tracking with large inertia and high accuracy

7）：Integrated modeling of the astronomical telescope

Instruments

　　Indoor and outdoor thin mirror active optics lab，large aperture segment mirror active optics lab，mechanism-electronics lab, micro—displacement lab，mirror cementation lab attach to the research department 。Dual-frequency laser interferometer，high accuracy theodolite，Shack-Hartmann wavefront detector，high accuracy friction drive test—bed，laser range finder etc 。