Funding

• National Science Foundation, Advanced Technology and Instrumentation (ATI) Program (AST-9987045)
• Telescope System and Instrumentation Program (TSIP), administered by NOAO for the NSF.
• The Ohio Board of Regents
• The Ohio State University Office of Research
• The Ohio State University College of Mathematical & Physical Sciences
• David G. Price (Price Graduate Fellowship in Instrumentation, and (Price Postdoctoral Fellowship)

MODS Team Leaders

• Richard Pogge, Principal Investigator
• Paul Martini & David Weinberg, Project Scientists
• Tom O'Brien, Senior Mechanical Engineer
• Bruce Atwood, Instrument Scientist

Mechanical and Optical Design

• Tom O'Brien
• Paul Byard (ret.)
• Ross Zhelem
• Mark Derwent
• Brooke Gregory, CTIO/NOAO
• Andy Krygier (undergrad)

CCD Development

• Bruce Atwood
• e2v technologies

Mechanical Fabrication

• David Brewer
• David Steinbrecher

Drafting

• S. Ralph Belville (ret.)

Electronics Development & Fabrication

• Bruce Atwood
• Dan Pappalardo
• Phil Covington (until March 2008)
• Ed Teiga
• Brandyn Ward

Software Development

• Raymond Gonzalez (motor control and architecture design)
• Jerry Mason (detector and data-handling system)
• Rick Pogge (scientist interface)

Graduate Students Past & Present

• Jennifer Marshall (IMCS design & testing, filter wheel - now at OCIW)
• Juna Kollmeier (filter wheel - now at OCIW)
• Jason Eastman (slit masks, IMCS laser beam splitters)
• Rebecca Stoll (MODS1 commissioning)
• Ben Shappee (MODS1 commissioning)
• Calen Henderson (MODS1 commissioning)
• David Atlee (MMS software)
• Joe Antognini (MODS1 commissioning and MMS software)

Undergraduate Students Past & Present

• Andy Krygier (Engineering assistance, MODS assembly)
• Justin Randles (Enclosure assembly & documentation, lab assistance)
• Chris Colarosa (Engineering assistance, Enclosure assy)
• Josh Rosenbeck (Engineering assistance)
• Brandyn Ward (Electronics assembly and testing)

Administrative Support

• Lynn Nair
• Kristy Scheckelhoff
• Susan Waller
• Jerry Mason
• David Will (IT Services)

Outside Vendors

Optical Materials

• Ohara Corporation, Sagamihara, Japan - BK7 corrector lens blanks, TIH-6 Prisms
• Corning Glass Works, Corning, NY - fused-silica corrector lens blanks and prisms
• HEXTEK, Inc., Tucson, AZ - lightweight gas-diffusion mirror blanks (collimators & camera primary mirrors)
• Schott North America, Inc., Elmsford, NJ - NZK7 glass blanks, Zerodur grating substrates.

Optical Fabrication & Components

• SAGEM/REOSC Optics, Paris, France - collimator mirror figuring.
• JML Optical Industries, Inc., Rochester, NY - folding flats, imaging flats, field lenses, dichroic flats, some coatings.
• Richardson Gratings (a division of Spectra-Physics), Rochester, NY - reflection gratings.
• Barr Associates, Inc., Westford, MA - optical filters
• Edmund Industrial Optics, Barrington, NJ - IMCS testbed optics, small optical components, small cameras
• Holo-Or Ltd., Rehovot, Israel - micro optics for the IMCS bypass gratings.
• Sydor Optics, Rochester, NY - Calibration system integrating sphere exit-port windows.
• Steward Observatory Mirror Lab, Tucson, AZ - camera mirror figuring, camera corrector figuring.
• QED Technologies, Rochester, NY - camera corrector lens magnetorheological finishing.

Optical Coatings

• CSIRO Australian Center for Precision Optics, Lindfield, NSW, Australia - Dichroic coatings.
• Newport Thin Film Laboratory, Chino, CA - Mirror Coatings (Enhanced Al and Protected Ag)
• ZC&R Coatings, Torrance, CA - Large lens AR coatings.

Mechanical Fabrication

• Indian Creek Fabricators, Inc., Tipp City, OH (main structure & all MODS handling carts)
• Elyria Metal Spinning Co., Inc., Elyria, OH (structral tapers)
• Arizona State University Physics Shop (shutter and mirror cell parts)
• OSU Chemistry Department Shop (filter wheel and grating select parts)
• C.O.W. Industries Inc, Columbus, OH (general machining)
• Ometek Inc., Columbus, OH (general machining, large filter wheel disks)
• Marquardt Machine Co., Columbus, OH (machining)
• Meyer Tool and Manufacturing Inc, Oak Lawn, IL (machining)

Detectors

• Semiconductor Technology Associates - MODS1 early lab-testing 4Kx4K CCDs, in collaboration with the UA Imaging Technology Laboratory
• e2v technologies (UK) Ltd, MODS1 and MODS2 Science CCD detectors.

Fabricated Components

• THK Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan - linear actuators
• Intelligent Motion Systems, Inc., Marlborough, CT - MicroLYNX series motor controllers
• WAGO Kontakttechnik GmbH, Minden, Germany - programmable I/O controllers.
• Comtrol Corporation, Maple Grove, MN - Network Serial Port Servers
• item (Industrietechnik und Machinenenbau GmbH, Solingen, Germany - Modular Building kits used to make our custom small-module handling carts and the MODS instrument enclosure framework. US Contact is MB Kit Systems, Inc., Akron, OH.
• Laminators Inc., Hatfield, PA - Omega-Lite panels for the MODS enclosure.

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