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CIAO SWIR

Improve your optical link capability with adaptive optics

CIAO SWIR

Improve your optical link capability with adaptive optics

CIAO SWIR is a compact adaptive optics system for Satellite Communication, Free Space Optics and Quantum key Distribution . By removing static aberrations due to mirrors misalignment, thermal or gravity effects and by drastically reducing the effect of air turbulence, CIAO improves the coupling efficiency in a single mode fiber and therefore improves the optical link datarate and stability

Adaptive Optics solution CIAO SWIR enables reliable, secure and fast communication

Connecting directly to the telescope , CIAO is inserted between the telescope’s focal plane and the user fiber holder without modifying the optical path. Set up is facilitated by the embedded tip-tilt alignment interface and autocalibration tools.  The user can close the Adaptive Optics loop with a simple click, to activate the aberrations correction and to reach a stable datarate.   


Key Features

+ Easy to install add-on for ground-based telescopes from 200mm up to 1m diameter
+ Corrects up to 40 modes thanks to piezo-electric deformable mirror
+ Fast SWIR Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, of more than 4.5 kHz 
+ Internal source allows a very easy and simple auto-calibration
+ User access to the beamsplitter (spectrally neutral or dichroic)
+ Single mode fiber holder included
+ Compatible with up to 100µW (-10dBm) of 1550nm at the input

Best For

+ Downlink satellite communication (SATCOM)
+ Horizontal path free space optics (FSO) communication
+ Quantum key distribution
+ Fast adaptive optics in SWIR
+ Daytime or Nighttime operation
+ Atmosphere Characterization in SWIR


 

Software 

+ Dedicated software for fast AO loop control
+ Many parameters are available to optimize the loop and adapt the configuration to the telescope, the seeing condition, the target and the application.

WAVESKY Adaptive Optics Software

+ Wavesky was made with a RunTime approach, meaning it has no GUI. Launch the server, connect your client through TCP-IP and drive the loop and make diagnostics.
+ It includes C++ and Python client examples

CIAO is a compact innovative add-on that enhances your telescope’s performance. We customize for our users: please contact us to discuss how it benefits your application 

We customize CIAO SWIR for our users: please contact us to discuss specifications for your application.

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