UW-Madison lets beam splitter bids

By Jeff Moore

Guess what needs a polarizing beam splitter array?

The Robert Stobie Spectrography in the South African Large Telescope, that’s what.

UW-Madison’s Department of Space Science and Engineering Center is soliciting bids for such a polarizing beam splitter array. Bids are due at 2 p.m. Dec. 6.

The polarizing beam splitter should be a 3-by-3 mosaic of nine identical air-spaced calcite Wollaston prisms.

Specifications and contract documents may be found HERE.

Please direct questions to Eric Thomson at (608) 262-5640 or e-mail him at eric.thompson@ssec.wisc.edu. For technical questions, call Kenneth Nordsieck at (608) 262-1163 or e-mail him at khn@sal.wisc.edu no later than Nov. 29.

Bids can be faxed to (608) 262-4467 or e-mailed to bids@bussvc.wisc.edu.

Jeff Moore is a data reporter at The Daily Reporter. He can be reached at (414) 225-1819.