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Adaptive optics for Free Space Optics… and for fun!
Adaptive Optics Space Optics -Incredible as it may seem, the famous reporter Tintin was already thinking, back in 1941 in L’étoile mystérieuse,...
Optical characterization with a twist!
Optical Characterization - Spirals are ubiquitous in nature; why should laser beams be any different? Orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams have...
Plane optics quality control
plane optics quality controlNIGHTMARE, a rather average 1981 horror movie that yet perfectly recreates the TERROR of an optician confronted with a...
Interferometry and wavefront sensing: the best of enemies?
Interferometry and wavefront sensing Illustration: Roger Federer, 20 Grand Slams and Rafa Nadal, 22 Grand Slams still countingTom and Jerry, Roger...
Nanolite, a CEA-Imagine Optic joint lab on Extreme UV metrology
Extreme UV metrology joint Lab, Nanlite , Imagine Optic - CEA NANOLITE, the novel optical metrology platform for extreme UV enters...
Lattice Light-Sheet with Adaptive Optics: precise and robust aberration correction in thick samples.
Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy, a successful bio-imaging method. As a remarkable answer to the growing interest in rapid 3D visualization ...
One more prototype of a microscope with adaptive optics: this time for 2-photons!
A custom-built 2-photon microscope incorporating a new, fast adaptive optics (AO) approach now provides its first AO-enhanced images. When targeting...
Building a fast adaptive optics light-sheet microscope: first light !
A custom-built light-sheet microscope containing our newly developed fast adaptive optics approach, is now ready for systematic testing with various...
Adaptive optics microscopy direct wavefront sensing approach is more resilient to scattering.
Custom-designed Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor enables accurate control of an adaptive optics loop in scattering conditions for the imaging of neuronal structures.
Complete characterization of beams hosting orbital angular momenta
Alok Kumar Pandey was the lead author in our recently published paper "Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensing of Ultrashort Optical Vortices". Based upon...
The dichroic beam-splitter of EUCLID telescope will be characterized by Imagine Optic’s OBSERVE.
Imagine Optic has been working for the European Space Agency (ESA) since last Summer on designing an optical bench to characterize the dichroic...
Nuclear pore complex imaging using adaptive optics
The group of Siegfried Musser from Texas AM University recently published an article in Nature Cell Biology where they used a MIRAO 52E...