What do our Customers use our products and systems for?

Antenna Development

Dr. Pat Foster of MAAS uses Thomas Keating's toolmaking services to manufacture her prototype antennas

Astronomy

The the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory use a dual polarization bolometer for site evaluation in Chile.SubMillimeter Array as well as TK's Radar-Absorbing-Material. Their colleagues in the Acedemica Sinica are using TK manufactured corrugated horn/mixer structures as part of the same project.

The National Radio Astronomical Observatory are using TK's Absolute Power Meters to develop receivers - for example for the Millimeter Array (MMA).

The Submilimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA)'s bolometer housing was manufactured for ROE by TK, using Spark Erosion

The Max-Plank-Institut fur Radioastronomie in Bonn uses QMCI's cryogenic polarizing grids in their Submillimeter Telescope Observatory

IRAM in Grenoble also use our Grids and Power Meters

Atmospheric Remote Sensing

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory use TK's Power Meter to develop receivers for their Microwave Limb Sounder. TK' is also working with AEA Technology plc and ESA's ESTEC to develop calibrated Hot Loads for future Terahertz space missions such as MASTER and FIRST.

TK supplied QO design advice, Corrugated Feed Horns and Off-Axis mirrors to BAe(Space Systems) Ltd [Now Matra-Marconi Space (UK)] for the UK Met.Office's AMSU-B water vapour measuring instrument to be launched sometime in 1997 as part of NOAA-K

Fusion Diagnostics

JET, the Joint European Torus, is the EU's central Tokomak fusion Experiment. Over many years we have supplied cooled detector systems for both ECE and Interferometry. Thomas Keating has also built the Quasi-optics of a novel Electron Cyclotron Emission Experiment, as well as providing, via UKAEA Culham's Fusion Laboratory, a dual-colour interferometer for the divertor region.

The National Institute for Fusion Science in Nagoya, Japan are using multi-channel detector systems as part of day-one diagnostics for their new Large Helical Device

ENEA in Frascati uses our homogeneous B-field InSb detectors for interferometric electron-line-density measurements

Princeton's Plasma Physics Laboratory uses two multichannel InSb systems to give profile density/temperature measurements, even in the presence of Neutron flux when a Tritium shot is taken.

Electron Spin Resonance

Farran Technology have subcontracted the design and manufacture of HE11 guide and corrugated feed horns for equipment they are building for a Berlin-based ESR research group.

Free Electron Lasers

The University of California at Santa Barbera's Quantum Institute uses a range of our detectors - both InSb and Si bolometers, as well as TK's Power Meter - to detect radiation from their Free Electron Laser

Materials Characterisation

The US National High Magnetic Fields Laboratory in Tallahasse use our B-Field tuned InSb detectors to see radiation fassed though cold samples in high magnetic fields.

The Quinetiq plc at Malvern and Farnborough use our Corrugated horns for Materials Charactisation.

Network Analysers

We have been developing a Quasi-optical Network Analyser with the Electrical Engineering Department at Leeds University.