Test facilities

• SimEnOm
  Thermal vacuum chamber for space environment simulation, 1m³, temperature range : 80K-370K (cooling with liquid nitrogen).
  SimEnOm thermal vacuum chamber

• OBAMA
  Thermal vacuum chamber for the calibration of IR detectors, temperature range : 60K-330K (cooling with cryogenerator).
  OBAMA test facility

• YACADIR€
  Thermal vacuum chamber for the calibration of IR detectors, temperature range : 40K-330K (cooling with cryogenerator)
  The test bench YACADIR€

• 10K chamber
  Thermal vacuum chamber for the qualification of optical elements, temperature range : 10K-330K (cooling with a 2 stages cryogenerator).

• Bake-out chamber
  Model CLIMATS V50 (50 liters)
  Pressure < 10-6 mbar
  Only heating function : outgassing in vacuum from ambient temperature to +160°C
  Primary dry pump plus secondary turbo-molecular pump. Cryogenic trap at 14K (cryogenerator)
  Microbalance TQCM (quartz) available.

• Climat chamber at ambient pressure in a acclimatized room equipped by a mobile hood with laminar flow ISO-7
  Model CLIMATS EXCAL 2221-TA, 206 liters (with forced convection), programmable and remote control.
  Temperature range : -65 to +180 °C

• Chamber with Pelletier heating/cooling for tests on electronics

• FT-IR spectrometer
  Model AGILENT 660
  Spectral range (cm-1) : Mid IR : 9,000–375
  Wavenumber accuracy : 0.005 cm-1 at 2200 cm-1
  Wavenumber precision : 0.003 cm-1
  Spectral resolution (cm-1) : Better than 0.06
  Interferometer type 38 mm dynamically aligned, 60°mechanical bearing Michelson

• Trinocular magnifier PERFEX ZOOM PRO 10.26
  Magnification 8X to 200X
  CAM. JENOPTIK ARKTUR 8.3MP
  Screen UHD 27’’ (16:9) 4K
  Integrated height comparator
  Located in ISO-7 clean room

• Binocular magnifier coupled to a photo camera
  Model binocular : NIKON Eclipse L150
  Model photo camera : NIKON D70 + PC
  Located in ISO-7 clean room

• Thermal camera
  Model : Optris PI 640
  Range : -20 to +100 °C / 0 to +250 °C / 150 to 900 °C
  Focal plane detector matrix (FPA) 640 x 480 pixels

• Portable micro-ohmmeter
  Model AOIP OM16
  Precision : 0,05%
  Resolution : 0,1μΩ

• IR calibration equipment
  integrating spheres, reference detectors, monochromators, stabilized power supplies…

Most of this equipment is located in clean rooms. LIRA has 10 clean rooms allocated over 250m², with cleanliness levels from ISO5 to ISO8.