Today we held the final online meeting for BIPD4Space, a collaborative project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), focused on advancing Brillouin spectroscopy for space and terrestrial applications.
The project addressed key requirements in Space-compatible instrumentation: size, mass, and optical throughput. Together with our partner BBT (in collaboration with Ondrej and team), we developed an ultra-compact Birefringence-Induced Phase Delay (BIPD) filter based on highly birefringent halide crystals, targeting high suppression of Rayleigh background light with significantly reduced volume and mass.
This first step supports future directions such as on-site planetary material analysis and fundamental biological investigations during space missions.
We’re grateful to ESA for the support and to BBT for the strong technical collaboration throughout the project.
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