Astronomy, Defense and Space
Solutions for challenging optical communication, astronomical observation, defense, and space situational awareness.
Imagine Optic delivers wavefront sensing and adaptive optics solutions that directly support defense, space, and astronomy markets. We provide optical ground support equipment to help with precise characterization, alignment, and testing of space optical components and subsystems. Our adaptive optics systems correct atmospheric aberrations to enhance the performance of free‑space optical communication links and enable space situational awareness. In addition, we test the quality of airborne pods protective windows through advanced characterization and testing, while also addressing the specific challenges of high‑power laser applications and environmental conditions.
Optical Ground Support Equipment (OGSE)
Imagine Optic has extensive experience in space optical components and subsystem testing, alignment. Our high-performance wavefront sensing solutions perfectly meet the demanding requirements of space and defense applications, and our in-house optical, mechanical and software engineering departments enable us to provide expert support and customized implementations.
Free space optics & Satcom
The channel data rate is limited by the atmospheric turbulences. Adaptive Optics is the ideal tool to get the highest coupling efficiency on the fiber input. It then allows coherent detection and higher throughput. Our CIAO SWIR is the ideal tool to connect to your OGS and optimize your link.
Observation & Space situational awareness
The number of debris in space increases. The knowledge of their position, shape and behavior is a key to prevent satellites collisions. From ground, these measurements are limited by the air turbulences. Our CIAO VIS allows to get rid of this effect and allows to get diffraction limited images of these objects.
Directed Energy Weapons
Drones are becoming the most important threat on a battlefield. Our strong knowledge in adaptive optics and our components such as deformable mirrors and wavefront sensors are the key factors to ensure the best laser focalization on the target.
Airborne pod protective windows
Discover our instruments that optimally combine an illumination platform with our wavefront sensing technologies making them ideal for the testing of large plane parallel optics: characterization at any wavelength in the VIS, NIR, SWIR, exclusive patented method to avoid back surface reflection limitations, testing before and after coating and throughout the manufacturing steps.
Environmental testing
Imagine Optic has developed compact, lightweight illumination platforms that are easy to mount and align in front of optics and systems placed in vacuum and thermal chambers. Shack Hartmann technology, robust to vibrations and atmospheric turbulence simplifies implementation. And if necessary, our vacuum-compatible wavefront sensors can operate in the vacuum chamber!
Astronomy
All telescopes suffer from bad alignment and for the largest, from the effect of air turbulence. Our CIAO VIS has been designed to change your telescope to a perfect optical system and then create diffraction limited images on the camera or the highest coupling efficiency in a single mode fiber for spectroscopy and interferometry.
Applications
| + Optical characterization of components, systems In transmission (WFE) + Optical characterization of components, systems in reflection (SFE) + Optical alignment of payloads, optical instruments and satellite telescopes |
+ Temperature, Vacuum Compatibility + Abberation correction + Target Tracking |
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