This short video highlights Standard and Customized Sensors. These devices are commonly inserted/installed into equipment or machinery that may present extreme conditions to the probes. Most applications require some customization of the probes and fiber optic cables. Philtec engineers optimize custom sensor designs to achieve best performance in their application.
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Space Telescope Lens Tests
It’s not often we discover how well Philtec sensors perform
for customers. The Euclid Satellite project a good example of our sensors being used with excellent results in cryogenic conditions.
A technical paper published in 2012 describes how Philtec’s high precision sensors were successfully used at 150°K to verify the distortion of lens holders to be <1 micron, well within the project requirements.
REFERENCE
‘Test Results of High-Precision Large Cryogenic Lens Holders’, 2012, Proceedings of the SPIE Publication “Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II”. 
The complete description of Philtec sensor installation and calibrations at cryogenic temperatures are found at ‘Section 4 Metrology’.
This work was conducted to verify the accuracy of the Euclid Space Telescope Lenses. Euclid is a space telescope currently under development by the European Space Agency and the Euclid Consortium. Launch date scheduled for 2022.