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Manufacture of fine collimators meeting the requirements for space-based Fourier Transform Telescopes

• Artep has built and delivered to the Goddard Space Flight Center full size collimator (89mm x89mm and 71mm x 71mm) from tungsten with pitches of 150 microns and 49 microns
• Collimators and pin-holes available ranging in pitch from 400 microns to 6 microns
• Collimators have been built from tungsten, stainless steel and ceramics

• Artep has sold collimators to the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), Argonne National Laboratory, and the Naval Research Laboratory
• Company has introduced its collimators at trade shows and has seven pending proposal with commercial clients
• Potential medical uses include high resolution cameras for imaging the brain and other organs

• Used in obtaining fine collimation of X-rays, gamma rays and neutron beams in laboratories
• In space and industry where imaging X-rays and neutron sources from a distance are required, they will be used in Fourier Transform Telescopes

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