Imagine Optic is proud to share this image of the planet Mars (high resolution) acquired at Pic Du Midi with the 1 meter diameter telescope "T1M." We used an adaptive optic system "CIAO" to get rid of the telescope's static aberrations and some of the turbulence...
In the past six years, adaptive optics (AO) has contributed to 8 Nobel Prizes. Unseen but essential, adaptive optics allows significant improvements in optical performance for imaging and laser systems... and Nobels. The 2014 chemistry laureates, Stefan Hell, Eric...
Watch or rewatch "PSF optimization for 3D SMLM super-resolution imaging using adaptive optics" the first webinar of our series on adaptive optics for microscopy. Fabrice Harms, Scientific Coordinator, and Audrius Jasaitis, Application Specialist, addressed fundamental...
A flavor of the now trending light sheet microscopy, the Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy (LLSM) developed by Eric Betzig at Janelia Research Campus, recently revolutionized the field of in vivo microscopy. Despite the superb imaging performance provided by LLSM, this...
The most powerful laser in the world has reached 10 PetaWatts with a 0.9 Strehl ratio, and the help of Imagine Optic's AO Laser solutions. In the last two decades, adaptive optics (AO) has dramatically improved the performance of Ultra-High Intensity Laser (UHIL) by...
Our third webinar and live demo completes our on ongoing series on wavefront metrology and correction. You can (re)watch our 3rd webinar, a practical tour of adaptive optics, wavefront sensing and correction. Our CSO Xavier Levecq, and our CTO Guillaume Dovillaire...
Ultra-stable deformable mirrors are key to long-term microscopy and wavefront analysis. In adaptive optics, the shape of the thin, reflective membrane inside Deformable Mirrors (DMs) and, eventually, their generated wavefront strongly depends on the environment,...
Putting trust in your wavefront sensor is a necessity at some point. It is precisely the reason why our CSO Xavier Levecq addressed fundamental topics on wavefront analysis, and best practices/tips and tricks to evaluate the accuracy and trustworthiness of any...
For the past 25 years, Imagine Optic's HASO family of wavefront sensors and optical metreology systems has relied on Shack-Hartman wavefront measurement. This technology was originaly developed for the metrology of primary mirrors, and subsequently used in adaptive...
The use of adaptive optics (AO) for IR wavefront control is essential to optimize the phase-matching conditions and therefore enhance the signal of the HHG. Furthermore, the vortex IR driver results in up-converted EUV with a wide range of orbital angular momentum...
Wavefront sensors have various perceived benefits but here are 10 objective reasons that have made Shack-Hartmann a trusted standard in the field. Real time measurement (up to several kHz) Achromatic Absolute measurement (typ. lambda/100, lambda/1000 achievable)...
This last generation SWIR sensor is offering comparable level of performance over the VIS, a game changer in AO applications across the board. Over the past decade a broad range of sensing, imaging and beam transportation applications have switched from the VIS...